Child labor, land grabbing and deforestation rampant across palm oil giant KLK’s operations
- RAN
- 02 April 2014
Four case studies document widespread abuses by Cargill palm oil supplier Kuala Lumpur Kepong
Four case studies document widespread abuses by Cargill palm oil supplier Kuala Lumpur Kepong
To make up for a shortfall in financing of the agriculture sector, 24 million ha have been made available to private investors.
Pour rattraper le retard en matière de financement du secteur, 24 millions d'hectares ont été mis à disposition d'investisseurs privés. Riz, café, hévéa, ils peuvent tout produire !
Cargill has doled out $200 million for a stake in UkrLandFarming, Ukraine’s largest agribusiness holding, in a potentially far-reaching deal that sources said would see both groups partner up in future grain exports to China and other growing markets.
Le géant américain du négoce agricole Cargill a acquis 5% du premier producteur agricole ukrainien, Ukrlandfarming, comptant accroître les exportations vers la Chine de céréales de cette ex-république soviétique aux "terres noires" très fertiles.
Bloomberg reports that a Colombian government plan to help Cargill and other investors acquire farmland was possibly killed by the FARC, meeting with officials for peace talks 1,400 miles away in Havana.
The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
La multinationale américaine de produits agricoles Cargill aurait acquis illégalement plus de 50.000 hectares de terres destinées à de petits paysans en Colombie, a accusé vendredi l'ONG Oxfam à Bogota.
Una nueva forma de concentrar tierras baldías en Colombia. Cargill adquirió 52.576 hectáreas en la Altillanura a través de 36 sociedades creadas con ese fin.
La multinacional de productos agrícolas Cargill habría adquirido de manera irregular más de 50.000 hectáreas de tierras destinadas a pequeños y medianos campesinos en Colombia, denunció la ONG Oxfam.
En la otra orilla, los congresistas Jorge Robledo y Wilson Arias han insistido en que el Congreso no puede aprobar “leyes calculadas para ocultar y premiar las ilegalidades con las que se está despojando de sus tierras al campesinado”.
Internally displaced Colombians face killings and widespread death threats for attempting to reclaim their land, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.