Cambodia. Standing up to Bolloré, the Bunong ethnic group mourns its forest

• Ouest France
• 04 July 2021

The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.

Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa

• Channels TV
• 03 July 2021

Farmers gathered to protest the seizure of their lands by a sugar company owned by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.

Farmers protest seizure of farmlands by Savannah Sugar Company in Adamawa

• Channels TV
• 03 July 2021

Farmers in Adamawa State Nigeria have staged a protest against the seizure of their lands by a sugar cane company owned by the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest person.

Court dismisses Cambodian farmers accusing Bolloré group of land grabbing

• France24
• 02 July 2021

Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on Friday by the judicial court of Nanterre. They believed that they had been robbed of their ancestral forest by the Bolloré group, who replaced it with rubber plantations. The farmers' lawyer has appealed against this judgment.

Socfin’s RSPO certification challenged by affected communities in Cameroon

• CED
• 01 July 2021

Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil certificate awarded to Socfin’s subsidiary company SAFACAM in Cameroon on 30 December 2020

As lockdown bites, multinationals resort to the use of herds hired from pastoralists to evict locals off their land

• Witness Radio
• 30 June 2021

As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.

What are the effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa on selected economic and social indicators?

• Misereor
• 30 June 2021

New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sierra Tropical limited invests in pineapple plantation

• Politico Online
• 30 June 2021

The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone

Japfa to acquire two dairy farms for $165.7 million to strengthen foothold in China

• Straits Times
• 30 June 2021

Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.

Corporate farmer buys top Yuna farm

• Farm Weekly
• 26 June 2021

An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million

San Juan La Noria: the community abandoned to palm oil development

• China Dialogue
• 25 June 2021

The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits

Human rights due diligence legislation: New hope for victims of land grabs in Cambodia?

• Business and Human Rights Research Centre
• 24 June 2021

For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.