El director de la Regional Oriente de la Fundación TIERRA habla de la problemática que termina incidiendo en la explosión de los incendios forestales, que podría ser un problema este 2021.
MDC Alliance VP Tendai Biti refutes rumours that a lucerne grass project, which is evicting people from their lands in Chilonga and is backed by the Scandinavian private equity firm Spear Capital, was stopped.
FIDH, along with Global Witness and Climate Counsel, submitted an open letter dated March 16 to Fatou Bensouda, the current prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging to open a preliminary examination into land-grabbing in Cambodia.
"Necesitamos cuestionar esta idea de que la transformación de un ecosistema rico y diverso en monocultivos de exportación trae desarrollo", señala Gabriela Russo Lopes, investigadora de DW Brasil, de la Universidad de Ámsterdam.
For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control is the key to any radical transformation of the food systems and for attempts to achieve genuine sustainable development to really matter.
A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
Au Sénégal, les scandales fonciers impunis ont beaucoup influé sur les dernières manifestations dont l’effet déclencheur était l’arrestation du député Ousmane Sonko.
The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in Almarai, the National Agricultural Development Company, and the Saudi Fisheries Company to the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).
The Indonesian government last year started developing a food estate project in Central Kalimantan. While it is currently spread over 30.000 ha of land, the size of the food estate will be extended over the next two years. Now, the food estate project has been expanded to North Sumatra, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), South Sumatra, Papua, and Riau.
La 1ère édition du « festival alimenterre » s’est clôturée autour d’un débat sur la politique du foncier face à l’accaparement des terres cultivables autour des grands centres urbains.
Des communautés continuent d’être exclus des prises de décisions concernant l’investissement et le gouvernement agit selon une approche descendante dans l’attribution des concessions.
Communities continue to be excluded from decision-making around investments and the government pursues a top-down approach to concession allocation and remains reluctant to recognize all legitimate tenure rights.
