Colonial and anti-colonial movements’ have deeply shaped the patterns and impacts of concessions in Southeast Asia. In some cases, communities have experienced dispossession through land grabs dressed as concessions. In others, concessions are part of a re-concentration of land holding.
Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.
Government finally lifts suspension of NGO working with land grab affected communities, but over 300,000 people were evicted and couldn’t access specialized and prompt legal assistance during the period of suspension.
Many oil palm plantations’ concessions in West and Central Africa were built on lands stolen from communities during colonial occupations. This is the case in the DRC, where food company Unilever began its palm oil empire. Today, these plantations are still sites of ongoing poverty and violence.
Les Fermes de la Teranga (anciennement Senhuile), qui occupe 20 000 hectares dans le nord du Sénégal, produit de la lucerne pour les pays du Golfe et le renforcement de l’élevage intensif local
Avec cette acquisition, l’entreprise disposera désormais d’un troupeau de bovins de près de 56 000 têtes sur un territoire total de 73 000 hectares.
La comunidad mbya guaraní como las demás que son sometidas al violento e ilegal desalojo de sus tierras mencionan un mismo motivo; la venta por parte del Estado a capitales extranjeros para la explotación del suelo.
New research studied 160 large-scale land acquisitions made between 2005 and 2015 across Europe, South America, Africa and Asia looking at how much of this land acquisition would cause competition and water grabbing.
Many rural communities affected by agricultural concessions in Liberia have seen their ancestral gravesites leveled in some of the worst land-grabs in human history.
La situation en France devient particulièrement critique pour les vignobles du Jura, où les terres d’AOC (vin ou fromage) sont si convoitées que leur prix explose et qu’elles font l’objet de montages sociétaires et d’agrandissements excessifs
This certification is next in line of a number of highly controversial certifications of the SOCFIN group in Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast.
Le label “durable” RSPO a été octroyé à Socfin en Sierra Leone malgré un conflit foncier flagrant
