Greenpeace criticises move to lease maize farms in Zambia
- The Star
- 11 April 2023
Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land.
Communication Manager Hellen Dena said it was unsettling for the ministry to lease land in Zambia when Kenya has about 5.8 million hectares of fertile land.
The UN counted 355 SLAPPs from the business community between 2015 and 2022. Individuals and organisations that expose human rights violations, abuses in mining, agriculture and forestry and on palm oil plantations are most often affected.
Greenpeace Afrique et Green Development Advocates mettent en lumière l’implication de la France dans Camvert, un projet de palmeraie susceptible de détruire 60 000 hectares de forêt équatoriale au sud du Cameroun.
In a new report, Greenpeace Africa and Green Development Advocates (GDA) expose the disastrous effects of the illegal Camvert oil palm plantation in Cameroon, which is supplied with seedlings by the French research agency CIRAD.
A new Greenpeace report shows how certification schemes end up greenwashing agricultural products linked to deforestation, ecosystem destruction and rights abuses.
Greenpeace finds that 1,319 hectares of forest - equivalent to 1,800 football fields - were deforested within indigenous territories from January to April 2020.
Greenpeace Afrique, ensemble avec d’autres organizations, demandent la libération immédiate des accusés et l’abandon de poursuites, a déclaré le Dr Raoul Monsembula, Coordonnateur Régional Afrique Centrale
Greenpeace Africa joins a call for the release of five community leaders from villages affected by the plantations of Canadian multinational Feronia, whose scandalous practices have been exposed by GRAIN and Human Rights Watch.
RSPO member companies and their associates account for three-quarters of the fire hotspots detected in the plantation concessions of the top 30 groups in the first nine months of 2019.
Greenpeace Afrique alerte sur des violations de droits humains dans un conflit forestier opposant la communauté Yalifombo et la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC) appartenant à la firme canadienne Feronia Inc dans la province de la Tshopo.
« Il y a beaucoup d’accaparements des terres par les multinationales, surtout en Afrique, pour faire des milliers d'hectares de monoculture, et ça c’est une contribution au réchauffement climatique, » explique Greenpeace Afrique
Greenpeace Africa salue également le retrait de l'investissement du Fonds de pension norvégien accordé à Halycon Agri.
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