A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed company Equatorial Palm Oil violated local townspeople’s right to their land in Liberia and are pushing them further into poverty.
WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, with operations in all major growing regions including southern Africa, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the state of California.
This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms to agriculture in illegal settlements on Palestinian and Syrian lands and examines their role in the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.
Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.
The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.
Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy government to farm 60 000 ha in the Lower Mangoky region of southwest Madagascar, for the local market and for export
With the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by the South Sudan nationals is violently and forcefully evicting hundreds of native families off their land.
The document says that only individuals who are citizens of Ukraine, legal entities established by citizens of Ukraine, the state, and local communities can be players on the farmland market.
An executive decree issued by President Bolsonaro late last year could turn over vast swathes of public land to large-scale private owners, escalating conflicts with indigenous and traditional communities who utilize those lands.
Rep. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis) has offered House Bill 1492, which would halt any future foreign corporate ownership of Missouri farmland.
À l’occasion de la foire agricole de la Semaine verte à Berlin, les ONG veulent accroître la pression sur le gouvernement fédéral pour obliger légalement les entreprises agricoles à fournir davantage de protection des droits de l’homme.
