The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”
Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.
Global corporations are increasingly influencing development policy, resulting in partnership agreements like the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security that grow corporate profits while endangering the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.
L’indien Shri Vallabh Pittie et les américains VF et Phillips Van Heusen viennent de boucler une tournée en Ethiopie où le président a réaffirmé son engagement à mettre à disposition 3m d’ha pour la culture du coton
Opening a bank account may seem like a trivial thing to do for most consumers. But such decisions may have consequences for deforestation and human rights abuses in the developing world, writes Anne van Schaik.
Lord Sainsbury’s new investment company, called Msingi, will support the establishment of new companies in East Africa in key sectors like agriculture.
'Grabbing back' maps the struggle of the dispossessed to rise up and call for an end to the global land grab.
“We can have a nice debate about foreign investment here in Australia, but in the global context it isn’t a discussion about whether it is nice to have, we need it, we absolutely need it.”
Philippines' Environment Secretary Ramon Paje proposes the conversion of some 8 million ha of idle, denuded and unproductive lands across the country into oil palm plantations.
Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it sold its shares in the Indonesian palm oil supplier Bumitama following months of campaigning by the two groups.
La province de Gaza a offert à l'entreprise privée chinoise, China Wanbao Co. Ltd., 20 000 hectares de terres et a signé un accord de développement avec Wanbao portant sur un grand nombre de terres agricoles en friche et des zones environnantes.
Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute, gives RFI's Laura Angela Bagnetto an update on the landgrab project that has occupied 20,000 hectares in northern Senegal
"Somos levados a concluir que a Carta Aberta das Organizações da Sociedade Civil foi taxativamente ignorada e que o projecto prossegue, como se tudo estivesse perfeito"
Son ni más ni menos que 116 mil hectáreas las que pretende este empresario estadounidense, que desde 2004 ha intentado avanzar sobre un territorio que incluye “escuelas, destacamento policial y un centro de salud"
