Globe-trotting billionaire Mo Dewji made a fortune in East Africa selling palm oil, rope, and soda. Now he says he's trying to acquire 100,000 ha in Rufiji and another part of Tanzania for sugarcane and cereal plantations.

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty has adopted Day of the Landless in 2018 as an annual global action to give spotlight on the issue of global landlessness and highlight the land struggles of rural peoples in the Global South.

Les plaignants dénoncent l’expropriation de leurs terres. Selon des ONG camerounaises, le versement de cette somme aiderait à réaliser des projets communautaires.

Selon le journal Le Mbandja, la holding belge, qui était présentée comme une passerelle vers la diversification de l’économie gabonaise, n’a rien investi et ses différents champs sont actuellement investis par de hautes herbes.

As the global demand for food rises and the supply of arable land shrinks, investment managers like Nuveen — a subsidiary of the largest global investor in agriculture, TIAA — see farmland as an attractive asset class.

L’exploitation des terres par la Socapalm empêche 145 Camerounais d’accéder à des terrains et lieux de sépulture et pollue leur eau. Après des années de procédure, ils ont obtenu 142 000 euros d’une holding qu’ils accusent d’être contrôlée par le groupe Bolloré.

On Wednesday, the Luxembourg holding company Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) paid €142,000 to Cameroonian plaintiffs, a fine imposed by the French courts for failing to produce documents that could establish its links with the French company Bolloré.

Palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s top producer of the commodity, cleared 30,000 ha of forest last year to make way for plantations. France-based TheTreeMap used plantation concession data from Greenpeace to identify 53 companies behind the plantation expansion and resulting deforestation, of which 20 had cleared carbon-rich peatlands.

A Cambodian court has charged 29 people with illegally occupying state land following an incident in which authorities fired live rounds in a crackdown on a longstanding land dispute.

Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.

Two oil palm plantation companies related to the Fangiono family and Ciliandry Arky Abadi Group are set up in the land belong to the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim Indigenous communities in Southwest Papua. Fangiono family is one of the richest palm oil tycoons in Indonesia reportedly have taking over 100,000 hectares of land forest areas in the Moi Sigin and Moi Kelim indigenous territory.

Prisca Macaillat, la responsable de projets de la Commission Diocésaine Justice et Paix de Pointe-Noire en République du Congo, évoque un rapport réalisé sur la compensation carbone au prix des droits humains.