Cent mille personnes sont bafouées de leurs droits en Guinée et obligées de quitter leurs terres pour faire place aux grands projets miniers, énergétiques ou agricoles

It is doubtful at Del Monte can continue owning so much land in perpetuity in Kenya.

Tensions between local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months following a complaint presented last year to the company’s international financial backers.

In our APRA study, we have been asking: what actually happens on the ground, even when corridors as originally planned are slow to materialise? Do the grand visions play out as expected? Who is involved and who loses out?

Ambitions for venture capital in African agriculture – once the Next Big Thing – are foundering, as is the case with the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

Locked within the legislation is a flaw for those living on the quarter of the country’s land set aside for concessions: it is not retroactive. A difficult truth that is only just beginning to permeate thousands of villages in Liberia.

Socfin dément l'information selon laquelle « ING arrêtait momentanément ses crédits avec le Groupe Socfin, tant que toutes ses plantations d’huile de palme ne seraient pas certifiées RSPO ».

L’Office du Niger entend offrir 50.000 ha à Hassad Food, filiale du Qatar Investment Authority, pour des investissements directs gagnants-gagnants.

As the world’s first Sustainable Rubber Platform is launched, Ali Hines of Global Witness asks whether tire companies can make good on their promises.

ESCR-Net members have been engaged in several actions in opposition to Luxembourg registered agri-business Socfin Group and its operations in several Western African countries.

This Saturday military forces fired live bullets at villagers within the Lokutu oil palm plantation concession area of the Canadian company Feronia Inc, following weeks of growing tension between communities and the company.

Ce samedi des militaires auraient tiré à balles réelles sur des villageois dans le district d’exploitation de plantations de palmiers à huile de la société canadienne Feronia à Lokutu, suite à des semaines de tension entre les communautés et la société.