The African Peoples Tribunal demands that African governments ensure that the human rights of freedom of speech, expression, and association of citizens and persons who brought cases of abuses before the tribunal are respected and protected
Global inequality experts blame the upward trend of land inequality partly on the increased interest from corporate and financial actors, such as investment funds, in agricultural land investments.
Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.
TIAA is unusual among financial firms for its aggressive pursuit of farmland, paving the way for financial wealth controlled by companies and individuals to takeover and dispossess rural communities of their farmland.
New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
D’un coût de 237 milliards de FCFA, le projet d’exploitation de 60 000 hectares de terres, continue de rencontrer l’opposition des organisations de protection de l’environnement et des populations.
University of Iowa faculty members write that major collegiate employee retirement savings manager must divest from socially irresponsible farming pension fund investments and be transparent in doing so.
Oil palm growing in Buvuma district has faced slow progress due to irregularities raised by residents including delayed compensations and underpayments that discouraged Bidco Uganda to occupy its nucleus estate.
Le projet régional de mise en valeur des terres (11 288 ha) de l'Office du Niger dans le cadre de l'UEMOA entre dans une nouvelle phase tout en restant fidèle à son objectif initial de contribution à la sécurité alimentaire et de renforcement de l'intégration régionale.
El proyecto que busca limitar la extranjerización de la tierra, impulsado por senadores del Frente Amplio con apoyo delo bloque de Cabildo Abierto (Manini Ríos), ya tiene tratamiento parlamentario.
José Narro Céspedes, senador de Morena, presentó una iniciativa de ley para reformar la Constitución, con el propósito de que la Federación expropie los latifundios que según él se reconstituyeron a partir de 1992 con la reforma agraria que se hizo.
Eva Bande was jailed for her role as a community organizer against land grab by extractive industries on the Indonesian island, Sulawesi. Ten years on, her fight continues.
1 % des exploitations agricoles concentrent 70 % des terres agricoles du monde, indique la Coalition internationale pour l'accès à la terre (ILC) dans un nouveau rapport
The African Peoples Tribunal demands that African governments ensure that the human rights of freedom of speech, expression, and association of citizens and persons who brought cases of abuses before the tribunal are respected and protected
«Un groupe de militants liés à XR a coloré les bâtiments du McDonald’s, de H&M, de Burger King, de Nespresso, du Crédit Agricole, de Starbucks, de Crédit Suisse, d’UBS et de Socfin afin de dénoncer leurs agissements écocides, meurtriers, esclavagistes et immoraux»
In Liberia, human rights have allegedly been violated on rubber plantations managed from Switzerland. Instead of taking up mediation offers, the Socfin group prefers to act against its critics.
Taking a look at the importance of securing Indigenous communities’ land rights and the global push for privatization that can deprive those communities of access to their land.
Although discussions are still in the preliminary stages, CEO of Go-Invest, Dr. Peter Ramsaroop, said the Chileans want to invest heavily in large-scale agricultural projects.
Global inequality experts blame the upward trend of land inequality partly on the increased interest from corporate and financial actors, such as investment funds, in agricultural land investments.
Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.
La Région bruxelloise va acheter, "dans les mois et les années à venir", des terres agricoles dans les Brabants wallon et flamand afin de préserver la biodiversité et de favoriser une agriculture locale qui pourrait nourrir une partie de la population bruxelloise
TIAA is unusual among financial firms for its aggressive pursuit of farmland, paving the way for financial wealth controlled by companies and individuals to takeover and dispossess rural communities of their farmland.
New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
El 20 de mayo de 2020, la comunidad Ijaw-Gbene, al sur de Nigeria, se quemó complentamente. Testigos oculares acusan a las fuerzas de seguridad de la empresa Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc (OOPC) de tener responsabilidad en el incendio, junto con miembros del ejército.
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
D’un coût de 237 milliards de FCFA, le projet d’exploitation de 60 000 hectares de terres, continue de rencontrer l’opposition des organisations de protection de l’environnement et des populations.
L’inspecteur général des Finances a annoncé, lors d’une conférence de presse à Kinshasa, mercredi, la disparition de 205 millions de dollars qui avaient été décaissés par l’Etat pour le parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo (Kwango), sous Joseph Kabila.
El discurso del desarrollo continúa cobrando fuerza a pesar de su rol decisivo en la crisis actual así como de los millones de medios de vida que ha destruido con desplazamientos y despojo.
The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.
University of Iowa faculty members write that major collegiate employee retirement savings manager must divest from socially irresponsible farming pension fund investments and be transparent in doing so.
The latest regulation issued by the Environment and Forestry Ministry that allows forests to be converted into farmland to support the government’s food estate program has sparked concerns of potential massive deforestation, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).
Se debate en el parlamento de Uruguay limitar la extranjerización de la tierra
El proyecto que busca limitar la extranjerización de la tierra, impulsado por senadores del Frente Amplio con apoyo delo bloque de Cabildo Abierto (Manini Ríos), ya tiene tratamiento parlamentario.
México: Senador de Morena busca expropiar latifundios; no hay aval de bancada: Monreal
José Narro Céspedes, senador de Morena, presentó una iniciativa de ley para reformar la Constitución, con el propósito de que la Federación expropie los latifundios que según él se reconstituyeron a partir de 1992 con la reforma agraria que se hizo.
L'augmentation des inégalités foncières au niveau mondial s'accélère
1 % des exploitations agricoles concentrent 70 % des terres agricoles du monde, indique la Coalition internationale pour l'accès à la terre (ILC) dans un nouveau rapport