The new colonization of Africa

Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources

The Grab hears from farmers with horrific tales of displacement – prolonged homelessness, the death of a toddler from the cold, bulldozed ancestral burial sites. The culprit is not one country or company but a shadowy network of mercenary interests, farms backed by “a Russian doll of LLCs and LLCs” (…)