The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.
Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.
Investigations carried out by RFUK and its partner organisations find that three plantations in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo are responsible for destroying over 20,000 ha of forest, an area twice the size of Paris.
In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm, both affiliated with Bolloré Group, sued journalists and nongovernmental groups who reported on villagers’ protests against the companies’ palm oil plantations in their communities and land.
Zambia's Kawambwa Town Council has allocated 21,500 hectares of farms to new more large scale investors to diversify the local economy driven by agriculture, mining and tourism.
Tous les ingrédients étaient réunis pour mener à cette victoire contre l’accapareur et c’est ce dispositif qu’il faudrait pouvoir déployer à chaque menace d’un nouveau cas d’accaparement des terres qui pèse sur les droits fonciers des populations, selon SOS Faim
Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.
La société guinéenne de palmier à l’huile et d’hévéa (SOGUIPAH) traverse en ce moment une situation difficile.
Al introducir un indicador de tierra en el proyecto EBA (Facilitando los Negocios en la Agricultura por sus siglas en inglés) el Banco ha creado un instrumento para prescribir reformas de políticas que facilitarán el acceso a la tierra para la agroindustria.
Follow-up verification by the Tanzanian government finds villagers still being denied lands lands of the Kapunga rice farm that were supposed to be surrendered by its owner, the Export Trading Group.
Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute denounce the National Land Summit, organized by the Papua New Guinea (PNG) government, as a dangerous attack on the country’s unique customary land tenure system.
