(Bio)Fueling Injustice? - Europafrica

Annex IV. Agrofuel projects in Africa with European involvement
FIGURE 4 EXAMPLES OF REPORTED CASES OF LAND GRABBING AND AGROFUEL
DEVELOPMENTS ACROSS AFRICA COMPILED BY FRIENDS OF THE EARTH 529
In a 2010 report, ActionAid had calculated that EU companies had already secured or
requested at least 5 million hectares of land for agrofuels in developing countries –
which is it considers is a conservative estimate. 530 The European Commission itself “is
aware of increased investor interest in land for food and biofuel production, including in
Ethiopia where around 1.2 million hectares of land has been transferred to domestic
and foreign investors”. 531
In his report on his field visit to Benin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
noted:
The pressure on the land, referred to in the previous section, could
become still greater in the future, given the planned expansion of
agrofuel production. At the time of the mission, Benin was actively
seeking investors for large-scale projects in addition to the energy
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