Investissements ou accaparements fonciers en Afrique ? Les visions des paysans et de la société civile au Mali

Abstract

Like other African countries, Mali is affected by the phenomenon of foreign investments and land grabbing. In the irrigated area of the Office du Niger, the government provisionally attributed nearly 600 000 ha to public and private, foreign and domestic, investors. Given the lack of public regulation of these investments, civil societies try to get themselves organized. Based on the example of the Malibya project, the paper analyses the implementation of an investment project and the local reactions. It then examines the options that are available to people facing these investments. Issues like governance of weak states, civil societies’ role, future of family farming and its cohabitation with agribusiness, are discussed.

Keywords

• land grabbing
• investors
• family farming
• civil society
• Mali