In Cameroon, women are the ones who bring food home, and when there is enough, we sell it. The income allows us to meet other needs. Today, we no longer have this possibility because of the agro-industries, like SOCAPALM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's Office says they have amended the farmland market bill to limit land purchases per person to 100 ha and delay allowing legal entities to purchase lands of up to 10,000 ha until 2024
Statement makes five demands to protect the rights of rural people amid the pandemic, including no further displacements of people from their lands under the pretext of COVID-19 lockdowns.
Kiev pourrait tomber en défaut de paiement si le gouvernement ne reçoit pas une aide financière du Fonds monétaire international pour laquelle la privatisation des terres agricoles est exigée
Women living in the vicinity of eight agro-industrial plantations in Cameroon - HEVECAM, SUDCAM, SOCAPALM, PHP, BIOPALM, SEMRY, RUBBERCAM and SOSUCAM - gathered to discuss the impacts of agro-industrial plantations on women's land rights.
Ethiopia's Mursi tribe says they were imprisoned and tortured to protect Chinese sugar plantations.
Deux filiales de l'émirati Al Dahra Holding bénéficieront d'un prêt de 5 millions d'euros de La Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement pour faire de l'huile d'olive pour l'exportation (1 214 ha)
As Uganda begins a 32 day COVID – 19 lockdown, multinational companies dispossessing more than 35000 natives off their land, have resorted to the use of violence to grab land for poor communities.
Le Togo va lancer une pépinière d’entreprises dans l’agropole de 165 000 ha situé dans le bassin de la Kara, au nord-est du pays
The World Rainforest Movement (WRM) has accused Singapore-based agribusiness company Olam of making meaningless “zero deforestation” pledges about a major oil palm development in Gabon and neglecting the rights of local communities.
The IMF is said to be making the passage of a law to privatise farmland a condition for emergency assistance to Ukraine to help it cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
The Digoel Agri Group has begun operating in an Indonesia mega project being fought over by investors from around the world earmarked to become the world’s largest oil palm plantation, in a vast project that has been mired in allegations of lawbreaking.
