Intimidation and attacks against land rights defenders in Tshopo and Equateur provinces

Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.

25 Sep 2019 Front Line Defenders

Croatia to extend moratorium on sale of farm land to foreigners

Croatia will soon submit a request to the European Commission to extend a seven-year moratorium on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.

25 Sep 2019 Euractiv

L’«agrocolonialisme» doit cesser!

A l’heure où des centaines de milliers de personnes, partout dans le monde, défilent pour la planète, alors que les conférences internationales consacrées au réchauffement climatique se multiplient, sur le continent africain, c’est business as usual.

25 Sep 2019 Le Courrier

Palm oil, pineapples threaten Southeast Asia's indigenous lands

Palm oil plantations in Indonesia and commercial fruit orchards in the Philippines have uprooted indigenous people and rural communities from their land, despite laws put in place to protect them, human rights groups said.

24 Sep 2019 Reuters

Como Harvard enlouqueceu com aposta de US$ 270 mi no Brasil

O medo de Harvard se manifesta em 2.000 páginas de registros judiciais brasileiros, incluindo a transcrição da teleconferência

24 Sep 2019 Info Money

Harvard was ‘freaking out’: How a $270 million Brazil bet tanked

Auditors wrote down the value of Harvard's Brazil farm project by about $200 million after the endowment decided to exit the development in 2017, according to documents filed in a lawsuit.

24 Sep 2019 Bloomberg

La Banque centrale du Nigeria investit $82 millions dans l’huile de palme

L’objectif de la Banque centrale est d’assurer qu’un minimum de 1,4 million d’hectares de terres soit consacré à la culture du palmier à huile dans les trois prochaines années.

24 Sep 2019 Commodafrica

Accaparement de terres : La SIAT doit revoir sa copie en Côte d'Ivoire

Une entreprise belge s'est lancée dans la monoculture d’hévéas sur leurs terres... sans leur consentement ! Les habitantes et habitants de Groumania, en Côte d'Ivoire, ont besoin de vous pour se faire entendre alors qu'une nouvelle étude d'impact est annoncée. ActionAid France lance un appel urgent.

24 Sep 2019 ActionAid France

Les investisseurs de l’huile de palme industrielle peinent à s’implanter en Afrique

Ces dix dernières années, vingt-sept concessions agricoles destinées aux plantations de palmiers à huile en Afrique occidentale et centrale ont fait faillite ou ont été abandonnées.

23 Sep 2019 Mongabay

Revealed: major banks and investors including Barclays, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock are pouring money into global forest destruction

New investigation by Global Witness uncovers more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn.

23 Sep 2019 Global Witness

Only Ukrainians will have right to buy land - Zelensky

A proposed land market model envisages that only Ukrainians and Ukrainian companies will have the right to buy and sell land, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

23 Sep 2019 Ukraine Today

Setting the record straight on false allegations in World Rainforest Movement’s petition about Olam’s palm plantations in Gabon

In response to the petition published by the World Rainforest Movement, Olam wants to correct the factual inaccuracies and to strongly refute the false allegations made about our oil palm operations in Gabon.

23 Sep 2019 Olam

Money to burn

Global Witness exposes how more than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn

23 Sep 2019 Global Witness

«Les Africains subissent de plein fouet les effets du changement climatique»

« 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

23 Sep 2019 RFI

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa

Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.

23 Sep 2019 Mongabay

Indonesia: Indigenous peoples losing their forests

The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch.

22 Sep 2019 Human Rights Watch

Au Cameroun, les riveraines exigent que les agroindustries respectent les cahiers de charges

Au cours de la journée du 21 septembre déclaré journée internationale contre les monocultures d'arbres, le RADD a sensibilisé l’opinion publique sur les tactiques et les stratégies utilisées par les entreprises pour accaparer tes terres.

21 Sep 2019 Scoops d'Afrique

Ukraine proposes farmland reforms

Leah Soroka, program manager for Eastern Europe and central Asia agri-finance with the World Bank's IFC, said the President's proposal to privatise farmland would be a game-changer.

20 Sep 2019 Producer

Perú, Ucayali: Autoridades trafican con 3.500 hectáreas de terrenos intangibles

«El ingeniero Isaac Huamán nos convocaba para informarnos que había un empresario extranjero que quería adquirir de cuatro a cinco mil hectáreas, pero ese dinero no entraba a la caja de la DRAU, sino a los bolsillos de Huamán y su gente. Cada hectárea se vendía a 3 mil soles», señala uno de los testigos.

20 Sep 2019 Servindi

En Afrique, les communautés résistent à l'accaparement des terres pour la production d’huile de palme

Un nouveau rapport sur l’état des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile en Afrique montre comment les communautés sont en train de faire reculer un accaparement massif des terres dans la région.

20 Sep 2019 GRAIN

Communities in Africa fight back against the land grab for palm oil

A new report on the state of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa shows how communities are turning the tide on a massive land grab in the region

20 Sep 2019 GRAIN

Palm oil giant Korindo silences critical report with cease-and-desist letter

Korindo, a major palm oil operator in Indonesia’s Papua region, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to delay the publication of a report highlighting its various violations there.

19 Sep 2019 Mongabay

Inversiones Cobra & CXI lawsuit (re illegal invasion of land & burning of palm oil, Guatemala)

A high court of Guatemala has found that two palm oil companies used the criminal justice system to criminalise indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' land defender Abelino Chub Caalun without any evidence

19 Sep 2019 BHRRC

Comunidades africanas luchan contra el acaparamiento de tierras para el cultivo de palma aceitera

Un nuevo informe sobre el estado de las plantaciones industriales de palma aceitera en África muestra cómo resisten las comunidades están cambiando el curso del acaparamiento masivo de tierras en la región.

18 Sep 2019 GRAIN

Villagers displaced by Neumann Kaffee's plantation face another land grab in Mubende, Uganda

28 villagers from Mubende district in Uganda have been illegally detained, arraigned and remanded without trial in prisons outside their jurisdiction for opposing the grabbing of their lands.

18 Sep 2019 witnessradio.org

Feronia announces missed loan payment

Feronia Inc. announces that its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo, did not make its scheduled semi-annual principal and interest payment under its secured term debt facility with a syndicate of European Development Finance Institutions.

18 Sep 2019 GlobeNewswire

Lutte contre l’accaparement des bords de lagune, les pêcheurs du village Bidjan-Santai briefés

Un atelier communautaire a réuni les pêcheurs du village Bidjan-Santai (Yopougon) en Côte d'Ivoire pour leur faire connaitre leurs droits

17 Sep 2019 Media Citoyen

Land conflict between villagers and PHC-Feronia in Lokutu, DR Congo: Violent arrest of many community leaders

Police have arrested numerous villagers from communities involved in an international mediation process regarding the occupation of their land by the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc

17 Sep 2019 RIAO-RDC

Why Ethiopia’s showcase sugar projects face huge challenges

There can be no denying that the Kuraz sugar plantation project has so far failed on its “development promises” made to the indigenous local communities.

17 Sep 2019 The Conversation

Conflit foncier entre villageois et la société PHC-Feronia à Lokutu, en RD Congo : Arrestation violente de nombreux leaders communautaires

Entre le 12 et le 16 septembre 2019, la police congolaise a arrêté de nombreux villageois des communautés impliquées dans un processus de médiation internationale concernant l'occupation de leurs terres par la société canadienne de huile de palme Feronia Inc (PHC-Feronia à Lokutu).

17 Sep 2019 RIAO-RDC