Indigenous peoples from the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon and non-governmental organizations from France and the US today filed a lawsuit in the Saint-Etienne court against global retail giant Groupe Casino over selling beef products linked to deforestation and land grabbing.

Anyone can find the illegally invaded plots by typing the Portuguese equivalents for search terms like "forest", "native jungle" and "timber" into Facebook Marketplace's search tool.

L’agrégation agricole - une nouvelle forme d'accaparement des terres, inspiré de la politique agricole du Maroc - gagne du terrain à Madagascar

In a country where nearly 40% of the population suffers from food shortages, some 8,600 hectares of fertile land is now to be used to produce stevia as a sweetener for the multinational Coca-Cola.

Le projet de Bukanga Lonzo refait surface en RDC. POLITICO.CD tente de défaire l’affaire, à travers cette série inédite et exclusive.

The company is also found to have violated the land and cultural rights of local communities, including the right to free prior and informed consent and social requirements on basic needs and grievance and remedy.

Land conflicts in Indonesia escalated in 2020, with palm oil and pulpwood companies taking advantage of movement restrictions to expand aggressively, according to a new report.

The Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the Murang’a County Assembly to block any plans to renew the land leases held by Kakuzi until claims on historical land injustices are resolved.

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.

The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.

Après avoir accumulé 2 000 ha à Mbane pour la production des pommes de terre, la société Senegindia passe à l'agriculture sous contrat

Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.

Cet article étudie l’accaparement des richesses des petit·es paysan·nes et de la population locale à travers le Plan Maroc Vert avec l’exemple du safran de Taliouine, Région de Taroudant

AgriNurture Inc has secured a partnership with Unified Bagobo-Tagabawa Tribe to plant rice and corn in up to 38,000 hectares of ancestral lands in Davao, the Philippines

Rural sociologist Saker El Nour discusses the complex power dynamics between main actors within land reclamation projects in Egypt.

La llegada de la emergencia sanitaria producida por la pandemia del COVID-19 ha venido a crear condiciones mas desfavorables para nuestras defensoras y defensores de la tierra y el territorio.

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 created more unfavorable conditions for defenders of the land and territory due to the creation of emergency decrees and the increased isolation of communities from society.

Ce rapport fournit une vision globale de la situation des défenseur(e)s des droits humains qui travaillent sur les droits des communautés les plus menacées par le changement climatique en Afrique de l’Ouest.

Renforcement de l’agro-industrie tournée vers l’exportation, menaces sur l’agriculture familiale, absence de débat public... Trois organisations alertent sur les risques de l'accord de libre-échange UE-Mercosur

A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.

Les entreprises agro-industrielles du groupe Socfin prévoient des extensions de leurs plantations au Cameroun avec un risque élevé sur la réduction du couvert forestier et de potentiels conflits sociaux

Jour d’audience dans l’affaire initiée contre Bolloré par un collectif d’ONGs coordonné par Sherpa au sujet des pratiques non éthiques de la Socapalm camerounaise, directement liée à Bolloré.

Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a collective of NGOs coordinated by Sherpa regarding the unethical practices of the Cameroonian Socapalm, directly linked to Bolloré.

A fund that supports Saudi agriculture investments abroad on the condition that at least 50 per cent of the project’s crops be exported to the Kingdom has tripled the value of its loans since 2016.

Germany’s Rainforest Rescue (Rettet den Regenwald) and Washington, D.C.-based Center for International Policy (CIP) blasted a baseless defamation lawsuit brought to the Hamburg Regional Court by a supplier to the Korindo conglomerate, a notorious Korean-Indonesian palm oil, logging and wind tower manufacturing giant.

Large-scale land acquisitions by foreign investors, intended to improve global food security, had little to no benefit, increasing crop production in some areas while simultaneously threatening local food security in others.

Lors de son face-à-face avec la presse le 31 décembre dernier, le chef de l’Etat sénégalais avait dit demandé au «ministre des Finances d’engager des réformes afin qu’il ne soit plus possible d’octroyer des titres fonciers sur les terres arables».

The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as the largest private farmland owners in the US, with over 242,000 acres across the country.

Argentina’s land laws have meant increasingly concentrated land ownership and leasing to profit-oriented companies who care little for long-term sustainability.