Abstract: International audience; Successive outbreaks of food prices on world markets have weakened food-importation dependent countries to feed their populations. This is the case of the Republic of the Congo, an oil rentier state that has appealed to foreign agricultural investors to feed a population increasingly concentrated in the city while the countryside is depopulated, peasant agriculture having been abandoned since decades by public policy. In this context, new large farms replace those established in the colonial period, then Marxist, without...
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