Israeli state backed agribusiness colonialism in Africa

December 2025

In this conversation, I discuss with Monica [from GRAIN] a specific report, released in fall of 2022, looking at Israeli state backed agribusiness companies operating throughout the global south. This report identifies that even when these Israeli business ventures are not openly state backed, the companies are most often embedded into Israeli state driven neo-colonial strategy that takes place on a global level.

Essentially this report identifies the ways that the military industrial complex, as a framework of asserting and building power, is embodied in specific contexts of Israeli state backed agribusinesses. This is a specific illustration of how neo-colonial Israeli power is asserted through agribusiness projects and pushed on Global South governments, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia.

I wanted to do an interview with Mónica on this report and work on a zine to popularize the content because it identifies, in a broad scope, a set of different examples that can help to articulate the ways that Israeli agribusiness projects, most often fueled by state-backed companies, represent a new form of colonialism today. This report is a key study on this front.

The issues at play are multilayered and are addressed meaningfully in this conversation with Mónica. Thank you for engaging with this interview and picking up this zine.

– Stefan Christoff. Sept. 2025, Montréal.