Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems.
Videos from the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, 6 - 8 April 2011
USAID and MCC elected to convene this discussion because identifying common ground among various sides of the debate around land acquisition is difficult
Even with new guidelines on land leases in Africa, the deals could lead to growing problems down the road, warned Emmy Simmons, a longtime USAID official
