Urgent request from women in Africa to stop the suffering and the violent impacts the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations is creating on womens´ lives.
Cette pétition contient la demande urgente de mettre fin aux souffrances et aux violences que l’expansion des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile a pour effet sur les femmes, dans le continent africain et ailleurs.
TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria.
A caravan of 200 women was stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights abuses.
Le 21 septembre 2017, la police a empêché 150 à 200 femmes de se rendre à Pujehun, en Sierra Leone, en vue d’exhorter les autorités locales à prendre des mesures contre la société SOCFIN.
WRM talked with Nina Cynthia Kiyindou Yombo at the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights about what she saw during her visit to the ATAMA operations in the Sangha region of the Republic of Congo.
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.
Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established
Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.
Selon des témoignages recueillis par le quotidien britannique « The Guardian », les victimes auraient été abattues par un gang de criminels qui souhaitait s’emparer de leurs terres
Experience in Mozambique with agribusiness investments shows Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
One final straw for the German company which owns 70,000 ha of land in Oromia has put a definitive end to its Ethiopian adventure.
Le groupe allemand propriétaire de 70 000 hectares de terres en Oromia a vu un dernier événement mettre un point d'arrêt définitif à son aventure éthiopienne.
La multinationale annonce son intention de sortir du pays suite à l’annulation de son allocation de terres. Karuturi est l’un des premiers investisseurs étrangers à louer des terres en Éthiopie.
Around 2006, Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation., Ltd. One of major sugarcane and sugar companies in Thailand began to expand their production base to neighboring countries. This infograhpic solely looks at the case of sugarcane plantation investment in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia.
