British colonial plantation company producing food for UK supermarkets settles claims with victims of horrific abuses in Kenya - rape, murder and beatings - but refuses to address the issue of land.
On February 5th, armed Honduran National Police forcibly evicted the campesino groups, Unidos al Campo and Mujeres y Hombres de Fe from land they recuperated and began working over 12 years ago.
- CNTC Honduras
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14 February 2021
The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
Birdwood, based in Asunción and managed by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs alum, has hand-picked a 140,000-hectare, contiguous, world-class beef and grains aggregation in a zone of the Paraguayan Chaco.
Since evictions started in 2017, communities have faced acts of violence meted against them by multinational companies from sexual violence against women, torture, beating, kidnap to illegal arrest and detention.
- Witness Radio
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11 February 2021
Marcial Acosta, uno de los líderes de la comunidad, informó que se dirigirán hasta Asunción para seguir con sus reclamos ya que en vez de proveerles de tierras, funcionarios realizan la venta de propiedades públicas a extranjeros.
- Última Hora
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10 February 2021
Le soutien apporté depuis 2012 par la France à Feronia PHC, une société d’huile de palme opérant en République démocratique du Congo, est un cas d’école en matière d’opacité et d’intermédiation financière sur fonds de paradis fiscaux, d’accaparement des terres et de violation des droits des travailleurs.
- Le Monde
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09 February 2021
The spread of giant soybean plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia threatens tributaries, floodplains and sources of essential rivers such as the Corrente and the São Francisco.
- Mongabay
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08 February 2021
Grâce à la concentration progressive des terres, de plus en plus de paysans sont contraints de se soumettre aux cycles d’exploitation à courte vue des financiers.
- À l'Encontre
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08 February 2021
Leader of the Indigenous community Uruwaarige Wannila Aththo filed a writ application with the Court of Appeal seeking an order to prevent the allocation of indigenous community lands for maize cultivation for leading companies.
- News First
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08 February 2021
Si la grande loi foncière promise par le président Emmanuel Macron ne verra pas le jour lors de ce quinquennat, une loi d'"urgence" aura pour objectif d'"éviter l'accaparement et la concentration" des terres en France
Après avoir accumulé 2 000 ha à Mbane pour la production des pommes de terre, la société Senegindia passe à l'agriculture sous contrat
123 ex-laborers from the Japanese-owned Furukawa Plantaciones C.A. company – operating 30 plantations on than 2,300 hectares in Ecuador – went before a local judge who ruled their rights had been violated.
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
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05 February 2021
CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 to invest in agribusiness across Sub-Saharan Africa.
- FinDev Canada
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04 February 2021