100% des terres arables du Libéria appartiennent à des investisseurs étrangers. La moité de celles des Philippines, le tiers de celles de l’Ukraine.

A worker picks tea at a plantation near Kasese town

‘Land Grabbing’: Foreign Investors Buy Up Third World Farmland

Foreign investors are buying or leasing vast amounts of farmland in Third World countries to profit from surging demand for food crops as a result of rapid population growth. “Land grabbing” amounts to a new form of colonialism that often runs counter to the interests of locals.

A number of developing nations have sold or leased much of their farmland to foreign investors. The list is led by Liberia, whose arable land is 100 percent under foreign ownership.