This article tells some truths but is pretty confused. It headlines multinationals based in China, India, Russia etc. as the problem but then only mentions that these companies are not accountable in their home countries, allegedly. Apart from not providing any evidence towards this, it also doesn't give any reasons of why this is so or who could do what to change that.

Then, it gives an example at length that doesn't have anything to do with multinationals. Instead, it's a classic example of corruption and land-grabbing. But while these problems are prevalent in much of the developing world, there are certainly huge differences between different countries. E.g. here in Kenya, land-grabbing is rampant, but its usually smaller cases, and the public increasingly fights back (see e.g. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/ureport/story/2000163954/lan...)

Nevertheless, the article chooses to present an example from Zimbabwe of all countries, one of the worst-governed countries on Earth, as representative.

There was another recent article on Foreign Policy which summed up the land-buying/grabbing situation across Africa much more balanced: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/20/the-myth-of-the-african-...