Cerca de 30 mil personas del distrito de Kiryandongo, Uganda, están siendo desalojadas violentamente de sus hogares y fincas para dar paso a los proyectos de agricultura industrial de tres empresas extranjeras: Agilis Partners, Kiryandongo Sugar y Great Season SMC.
On estime à 30 000 les habitants du district de Kiryandongo, en Ouganda, à être violemment expulsés de leurs maisons et de leurs champs pour laisser la place aux projets d'agriculture industrielle de trois sociétés étrangères – Agilis Partners, Kiryandongo Sugar et Great Season SMC.
Indonesia's Minister of State-Owned Enterprises said that the aim was to boost food security in the country and improve the quality of domestically grown products to give them export value, with a view to exporting to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à démontrer que les activités des banques publiques de développement ont alimenté des violations des droits humains (telles représailles, accaparement de terres et expulsions forcées) sans que les communautés affectées ne puisse accéder à quelconque remède utile."
Israeli and Dutch firms, backed by the Dutch export credit agency, have signed a €108mn deal to construct four agriculture production and training centres across Côte d’Ivoire. The scheme is devised by Green 2000, an Israel-headquartered company that specialises in agriculture projects. It involves the construction of four agriculture services and training centres, which provide land, facilities and machinery for producing fruit, vegetables, fish and other products.
L’est de l’Europe est victime d’un phénomène d’accaparement de terres par de gros investisseurs étrangers au monde agricole. Le dernier exemple concerne l’Allemagne et le discounter Aldi.
El continente africano se ha convertido en nuevo y valioso escenario para multinacionales que despliegan grandes monocultivos, sin respetar a menudo ni la biodiversidad ni los derechos humanos
State radio reported last week that hog farm expansions financed by the World Bank in Henan’s Nanyang had allegedly taken farmland illegally from wheat farmers, threatening the nation’s grain security.
First-ever database reveals true scope of financing of forest-risk commodity companies, amidst global rainforest fires
Numerous women say they were raped by workers of three multinational companies that have been evicting people off a chunk of land in Uganda measuring about 37.8 square miles to establish large scale commercial farms.
L'accaparement de terres des habitants de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal par des investisseurs du Golfe suscite colère et tensions en Mauritanie.
Thousands of families say they have been displaced from their homes to make way for commercial farms
