The increase in the world population feeds debates on access to food and questions the role of agriculture and access to land to achieve food self-sufficiency. The most popular forms of agriculture and land management in the prevailing world economic system are agribusiness at the expense of family farming and private ownership as a land management mode. Yet today, within the international financial organisations, this capitalist model, energy-consuming and with significant environmental costs, is under discussion and hybrid forms are increasingly favoured. In this global context, this thesis questions the strategy of massive land acquisitions by agribusiness as a means to access food self-sufficiency in the Congo. The food supply of the Re...