Outsourced African farming threatens to alienate locals
- The National
- 20 December 2010
Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.
Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.
DRC, with 80 million ha of rich arable soil of which only 5% is cultivated, has invited Indian investors in the area of largescale farming to come and assess the possibilities.
The African Agriculture Fund and its portfolio companies commit themselves to these principles and guidelines in undertaking agricultural and agribusiness investments across Africa.
Un rapport accablant, produit par un « think tank » américain, accuse la SFI, filiale de la Banque mondiale, de faciliter « l’accaparement des terres » en Afrique
The Africa farms operator, whose company mission is to be "the largest agricultural producer in Africa", raised the cash from both institutions and private investors
«Comment le gouvernement peut-il affirmer que le projet agricole chinois contribuera à lutter contre l’insécurité alimentaire lorsque son maïs est déjà vendu plus cher que le maïs importé et qui semble de meilleure qualité?», demande l’activiste Patrice Musoko
Accaparement des terres - Cas de la République Démocratique du Congo - par AGTER
Lawrence Asset Management's Ravi Sood suggests investing in food production in low-cost areas that are water-rich – Brazil, tropical Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo —a desperately poor country whose abundance of natural resources has made it the site of a catastrophic regional proxy war in which 5 million lives have been lost— China has secured a lease for 50% more land than the entire nation devotes to growing corn, its staple food, for 66 million of its own people.
Sur les terres agricoles cédées à la compagnie Daewoo, l’ex-président de Madagascar dit : « Ce sont de fausses informations. Un accord avec la compagnie Daewoo nécessite la ratification du parlement. Nous étions encore en phase de négociations. C’est pourquoi, dès qu’il y a eu ces problèmes, Daewoo s’est déployé en République démocratique du Congo où elle a obtenu 4 millions d’ha. »
« On présente ces contrats comme “ gagnant-gagnant ”, mais c'est de la foutaise ! », s'agace Michel Merlet, directeur de l'ONG Agter.
South African farmers have been offered land for agriculture in Angola and Uganda and the government is also in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Southern Sudan.