Accaparement des terres en Afrique de l’Ouest: exporter ou nourrir les populations?

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.

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

Les transactions commerciales sur les terres agricoles ne sont pas un phénomène nouveau, mais l’accélération de leur rythme et l’importance de la taille des terres louées ou vendues au cours de ces dernières années revêtent un caractère spécifique. Si ces transactions permettent l’accroissement des investissements et des innovations, elles suscitent une forte opposition de la part des organisations paysannes et présentent des risques de fragilisation des droits d’accès des populations rurales à la terre, et des menaces pour la durabilité environnementale.

Paris / Novembre 2011 / 70 pages

The focus of this report is land grabbing in Cambodia. It is based on APRODEV Agencies experience from many years of development work. The report documents how affected communities have lost their livelihoods because of land grabbing by national and international business corporations. Local communities have not been consulted and they have received little or no compensation for their loss. The communities have been evicted from their land and have faced systematic human rights violations.

Brussel (Belgium), December 2011 / 23 pages