Communities and organizations from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico came together in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico to share their experiences with the advance of industrial oil palm monoculture and its impacts.
The 3rd edition of the West African caravan of the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water and Seeds has commenced.
Minister Robert Montague said that the Ministry will be moving to secure some 5,000 acres of “unclaimed lands” to commence growing the castor plant.
Some 145 Cameroonians have asked the French courts to force the Bolloré group to provide documents to establish its links with the Cameroonian Company of Oil Palm Plantations (Socapalm) that they accuse of violating their rights.
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
The 2021 Front Line Defenders Award Laureates include Aminata Fabba, Chair of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender resisting SOCFIN and other companies in Sierra Leone.
The growing financialisation of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation - and land grabbing
ADM, Bunge and Cargill are dealing in conflict-tainted soy sourced from producers in the Cerrado, and in doing so are contributing to land conflict and alleged human rights abuses, in violation of their responsibilities under UN and OECD human rights standards.
Landowners leasing their land to Chinese-run plantations are aware of the many drawbacks associated with banana farming, but still rent out their land, or are sometimes deceived into doing so, because of the limited market for traditional crops as well as the high rents they receive.
