Decades-long legal battle over ancestral land had forced indigenous people to occupy other areas to make a living. Their loss of land has largely been driven by cattle, about 2.7 million people live in Mato Grosso do Sul, as do 22 million cattle, according to FAMASUL, a farmers' association in the state.
Depuis cinq à dix ans, le milieu rural burkinabè est en proie à l’accaparement des terres au profit des multinationales, explique Rosalie Ouoba, coordonnatrice du Réseau d’appui à la citoyenneté des femmes rurales d’Afrique de l’ouest et du Tchad
Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness
En la actualidad hay más del 7% del empresariado extranjero que posee tierras en nuestro país y ahora además de poder comprar sobre las riberas de lagos y ríos, el negocio será ilimitado.
Face aux censures répétées de mesures législatives d’intérêt général, telles que la lutte contre l’évasion fiscale ou l’accaparement des terres, la société civile tente de se saisir de cet espace pour contrer les arguments des lobbies,
L’atmosphère est moite, les températures oscillent entre 24° et 28 °C. Ses longues feuilles épineuses, au port dressé en couronne et retombant, flanquées au sommet d’une tige rugueuse s’étalent sous les cieux lumineux des régions tropicales. Ce n’est pas un arbre, il ne fait pas de bois, c’est un stipe. On l’apprécie tant pour ses lourds régimes de fruits charnus que partout où les conditions lui sont favorables on le cultive sur des milliers d’hectares. On l’accuse de tous les maux. Voici Elaeis guineensis (Elaeis de Guinée), le palmier à huile. par Agnès Stienne
A controversial new railroad, Ferrogrão (Grainrail), is poised to penetrate the Brazilian Amazon, if industrial agribusiness gets its way.
The peace agreement signed between Makpele chiefdom and Natural Habitat was as a result of concern over land grabbing where large tracts of land in the chiefdom are leased to the commercial investor by a small fraction of community stakeholders.
Farm and asset management company Gunn Agri announced it has finalized the acquisition of Abingdon Downs, a 484,000-hectare breeding property in Queensland, Australia from the Keough Cattle Company, for an undisclosed sum.
One of the more specific projects targeted by the activists involves the palm oil company SocFin, which is active in Sierra Leone.
The South African state-workers’ pension funds and black-economic empowerment group Pelo Agricultural Ventures take a majority stake in Karan Beef (Pty) Ltd., owner of the continent’s largest cattle feedlot.
As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.