Suffering silenced in Sierra Leone
- FOEE
- 23 October 2020
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals
Il s’en est fallu de peu pour qu’éleveurs et paysans du village de Nguéniéne opposés à l’installation du projet agricole d’exploitation de melon n’en viennent aux mains avec les chauffeurs de tracteurs qui avaient commencé à labourer les 100ha de pâturage que la mairie a attribués à l’entreprise espagnole Produmel.
La Société camerounaise de palmeraies, fialiale du groupe Socfin, est accusée de snobisme et de mauvaise foi par les populations riveraines de cette localité
Aujourd’hui, il existe de nombreuses craintes partagées entre les acteurs des deux pays quant aux conséquences possibles des régimes exceptionnels créés par les ZES
“Las invasiones no paran, la deforestación no para y las amenazas no paran”, exclama Iván Flores Rodríguez por teléfono desde la comunidad nativa Santa Clara de Uchunya, en el distrito de Nueva Requena, provincia de Coronel Portillo en Ucayali.
Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands.
Amandla talks to Jeff Wokulira Sebagala of Witness Radio, Uganda, one of the organizations that recently authored the report “land grabs at gunpoint.”
En el INDERT opera una “rosca que blanquea tierras del estado usurpados por no beneficiarios de la reforma agraria” que incluye a jueces, fiscales y funcionarios del ente que entregan tierras a extranjeros.
Nicaragua has ramped up export production to the US amid the pandemic. But this has come at a high cost for Indigenous communities, who are being run off their land to make way for cattle ranches.
The prosecution alleges that the eight land defenders threatened to harm a police officer and workers of one of the companies involved in large-scale land grabs for agricultural plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.
Hace tres años, en una consulta popular, este pueblo del Tolima rechazó un proyecto de la empresa sudafricana AngloGold Ashanti que pretendía explotar oro. Pero al mismo tiempo aceptó la entrada del aguacate hass, un monocultivo promovido por esa multinacional que hoy acapara tierras y amenaza el ambiente.
a number of Chinese firms have invested in large-scale crop and livestock production in Zambia and the agronomist would like to see more Chinese investments in agriculture exports.