The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.

The company is also found to have violated the land and cultural rights of local communities, including the right to free prior and informed consent and social requirements on basic needs and grievance and remedy.

Land conflicts in Indonesia escalated in 2020, with palm oil and pulpwood companies taking advantage of movement restrictions to expand aggressively, according to a new report.

President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.

The Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the Murang’a County Assembly to block any plans to renew the land leases held by Kakuzi until claims on historical land injustices are resolved.

British colonial plantation company producing food for UK supermarkets settles claims with victims of horrific abuses in Kenya - rape, murder and beatings - but refuses to address the issue of land.

On February 5th, armed Honduran National Police forcibly evicted the campesino groups, Unidos al Campo and Mujeres y Hombres de Fe from land they recuperated and began working over 12 years ago.

The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.

Birdwood, based in Asunción and managed by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs alum, has hand-picked a 140,000-hectare, contiguous, world-class beef and grains aggregation in a zone of the Paraguayan Chaco.

Since evictions started in 2017, communities have faced acts of violence meted against them by multinational companies from sexual violence against women, torture, beating, kidnap to illegal arrest and detention.

The spread of giant soybean plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia threatens tributaries, floodplains and sources of essential rivers such as the Corrente and the São Francisco.

Leader of the Indigenous community Uruwaarige Wannila Aththo filed a writ application with the Court of Appeal seeking an order to prevent the allocation of indigenous community lands for maize cultivation for leading companies.