Quatre-vingts paysans Bunongs estiment avoir été spoliés de leur forêt ancestrale, remplacée par des plantations d’hévéas. Une audience a eu lieu mardi à Nanterre.

Nine representatives of the Bunong indigenous communities in Cambodia who claimed to be victim to plantation project by French company Socfin-KCD appeared for questioning at the Tribunal of Nanterre in France.

Le RIAO-RDC appel au respect de l'évolution de la médiation et sollicite l'implication des tous pour contraindre la PHC/Feronia à mettre fin à ses actions provocatrices et violences contre les propriétaires terriers qui revendiquent leurs droits

Ils ont saisi la justice française pour réclamer la restitution de leurs terres, accaparées depuis douze ans par des plantations d’hévéa.

Quatre-vingts cultivateurs poursuivent le groupe Bolloré et ses filiales, les accusant d’avoir accaparé leurs terres ancestrales.

Worldwide farmland under management reversed upward trends in recent years, with assets falling 15.7% to $16.2 billion, according to Pensions & Investments' annual survey.

The government of Sierra Leone has signed a $275M investment deal with the Turkish SALA Group, for the resumption of large-scale rice farm project, covering 54,000 ha in Torma Bum.

The mandate of the committee was to enquire into and come out with recommendations that would resolve the conflict between the landowners, the Chiefdom council and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company in Sierra Leone.

Residents of Yala swamp, in Kenya, have begun the process of registering the land to ward off cartels seeking to benefit from the process after the departure of Dominion Farms

Selon le Prof Ibrahima Arouna Diallo, le coordinateur du réseau NELGA, la vallée du fleuve Sénégal "est un grenier de plus en plus menacé avec les investissements privés, les accaparements et la saturation des terres".

Independent investigators to explore alleged involvement of security guard for palm oil company supported by CDC

Greenpeace Africa is appalled — but not surprised — by reports of violent nocturnal arrests and torture of Congolese villagers in Tshopo province who are involved in a conflict over their land with the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc.