Agro-colonialism in the Congo. European and US development finance is bankrolling a new round of colonialism in the DRC

Publications 1 June 2015

Report about how several prominent development finance institutions (DFIs) are funding Feronia Inc., a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Issues: Agribusiness / Legal Land Theft
Countries: Congo DR
Special section: Community struggles against oil palm company Feronia-PHC in the DR Congo
Languages:
agrocolonialism drc

The report is authored by GRAIN and RIAO-RDC in collaboration with Fundación Mundubat, War on Want, Association Française d'Amitié et de Solidarité avec les Peuples d'Afrique, World Rainforest Movement, Food First, SOS Faim, FIAN (Belgium) and CIDSE.

Read the report online.

Download the full report as pdf