Le treizième travail d’Hérakles? Etude sur la concession foncière de SGSOC dans le Sud-Ouest du Cameroun

Cambodia and Laos are in the grip of a land grabbing crisis, driven by Vietnamese ‘rubber barons’. This report reveals how two of Vietnam’s largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), have leased vast tracts of land for plantations in Laos and Cambodia, with disastrous consequences for local communities and the environment. Close ties to corrupt political and business elites provide them with impunity, deals are cloaked in secrecy and they are bankrolled by international finance such as Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

London (UK) / May 2013 / 10 pages

The Socfin SL arrangement has already caused tension amongst key stakeholders and farmers in the area. Allegations were made to Green Scenery about a lack of transparency, little or no consultation with key stakeholders and elected representatives, no information on potential resettlement, and also about pressure being applied on land-owners and town chiefs to sign agreements.

Freetown (Sierra Leone), May 2011 / 15 pages

For close to a century, peasants in the Philippines have been organizing to defend their lands from being grabbed by foreign agribusiness corporations. However, this struggle for land and livelihood in rural areas has intensified over the past five years, as a race to establish plantations of “green oases” for agrofuel development and agro-industrial crops for export has been initiated by foreign companies from Japan, South Korea, China and the Arab world.

Manille (Philippines) / août 2011 / 20 pages.

Cicodev Afrique, l’institut pour la recherche, la formation et l’action pour la Citoyenneté, les Consommateurs et le Déceloppement en Afrique, a mené une étude entre janvier et février 2011 sur le cas d’accaparement des terres survenu dans la communauté rurale de Diokoul Ndiawrigne au Sénégal.

Dakar (Sénégal) / décembre 2011 / 25 pages