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
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.
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.
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
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.
Munich-based Agri Terra Group is among the top 1% of the largest cattle owners in Paraguay, the third largest grower of citrus fruit, and the company has the country's single largest greenhouse complex under construction.
WRM invite organizations, groups, networks and movements to sign this petition in solidarity with Gabonese communities threatened by OLAM/SOTRADER plantations by 19 September 2019.
The community of Nyete, in the Ocean Division of the South region have expressed concerns over a new palm project which will occupy over 3000 hectares of their land
The view of Chinese agricultural investments in Africa from Luwero, Uganda, where there are two different Chinese-owned farms, is one of inaction and incompetence.
Phoenix Global DMCС, a transnational company based in Dubai (UAE), will invest in the project for orchards development with a total area of 1,000 hectares in Kazakhstan’s Almaty region.
Friends of the Earth Africa member groups visit the Joegbahn clan community in Liberia, which is facing threats from the Equatorial Oil Palm (EPO) Company to cede their remaining land to allow the company to expand its plantations.
