The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control
Feronia announces that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Straight KKM 2 Ltd that provides for the acquisition of its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo.
O Ministério da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural torna público que os parceiros envolvidos com o Governo no Programa ProSAVANA acordaram o seu término com a conclusão do “Projecto para o Estabelecimento de Modelo de Desenvolvimento ao Nível das Comunidades com Melhoria do Serviço de Extensão Rural no Desenvolvimento Agrícola do Corredor de Nacala em Moçambique”
Alors que les entreprises d’huile de palme se présentent comme des donateurs charitables pendant la pandémie, les communautés vivant dans et autour de ces plantations racontent une autre histoire.
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A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action
La Soguipah - entreprise d'Etat qui détient 9 000 ha de plantations d'hévéa en Guyinée - fait appel à Bolloré pour continuer à tourner
Is the pandemic opening up forms of organizing to restore community control over resources or will it consolidate the efforts of those already holding the balance of power to usurp community control over land?
Kenya's President has intervened in a land dispute between Murang’a residents and Del Monte Foods after being pressured by the US government as part of talks around the proposed free trade agreement.
A decade ago, the Indonesian government began to heavily promote large-scale plantation in southern Papua. An investigation recently published explored how some outside investors gained rights to the land and the fallout for the indigenous population. Children were suffering from malnutrition while agricultural commodities are exported from their ancestral land.
A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change.
As institutional investors continue to seek “pockets of calm” amid the turmoil, farmland’s resilience during the global financial crisis and the pandemic’s immediate aftermath is likely to be top of mind.
While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.
