Congo's Senate on Tuesday rejected a request by prosecutors to lift former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's immunity so they could indict him for his role in a failed agriculture project in which investigators say $200 million disappeared.
L’huile de palme nuit gravement aux droits humains, selon un rapport de Human Rights Watch (HRW), publié jeudi 3 juin.
On May 3rd, 2021, we gathered with frontline land defenders, researchers, students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members from around the world to learn about Harvard’s farmland investments and build power.
The victory is a result of the organization of the Collective of Communities Impacted by Agribusiness, created by rural communities in the Cerrado region of Piauí to resist land grabbing and the advance of agribusiness monocultures.
Opondo Cathy says agents of the multinational agribusiness company Agilis Partners took advantage of the last lockdown to rape her, torch her house and grab her land.
Managro, an Israeli-based agricultural investment conglomerate, is reportedly planning to buy 3,700 hectares of land in Colombia for Hass avocado production.
Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the largest farmland owner in the US as part of his broader strategy to save the climate.
Con emporios empresariales participados por Mohamed VI y el propio ministro de Agricultura de Marruecos
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
Quienes actualmente controlan los flujos financieros del mundo no son capaces de apoyar a los productores de alimentos y a los sistemas alimentarios —que pueden combatir la crisis climática o las muchas otras crisis que afectan a la alimentación y a la agricultura. Nuestro desafío es lograr que tanto las tierras agrícolas como el dinero no sigan en sus manos, tan pronto como podamos.
En Colombia "Claramente los grandes acaparadadores y compradores hacen su negocios para agricultura mecanizada. Hay una búsqueda de tierras para comodities emergentes como la soya, la carne, la palma y el mercado de maderas, así como para negocios alrededor de los bonos de carbono".
Land conflicts in Brazil broke a record in 2020 for the second year running, reaching 1,576 cases — the highest since 1985, according to the Pastoral Land Commission.
SALIC owns a whopping aggregation in Western Australia, Merredin Farms, which produces grain and livestock over 211,000 hectares and grows around 120,000 tonnes of grain alone each year.
Dans une interview accordée à un hebdomadaire étranger, le ministre des Affaires économiques affirme être «en train de travailler avec la Banque mondiale afin d’attirer le privé international pour investir dans l’agriculture» mauritanienne.
The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of communities living on or near peatland converted to commercial agriculture. It is also permitting the widescale destruction of one of the world’s most important carbon sinks, Human Rights Watch said.
