The Sierra Leone Agriculture signed a 50-year lease for 41,582 hectares of land for the development of palm oil, displacing over 30,000 residents and farmers, mostly women, in the Northwest district of Sierra Leone

La Zambie a lancé un projet de délivrance de titres fonciers visant à fournir 4 millions de titres fonciers aux citoyens sur une période de sept ans.

Observers and activists have raised concerns about the leading role the Indonesian government plans to give to the military and to big corporations in a program to establish vast crop plantations across the country.

SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals

Aujourd’hui, il existe de nombreuses craintes partagées entre les acteurs des deux pays quant aux conséquences possibles des régimes exceptionnels créés par les ZES

Seventy-nine Kenyans have launched a legal claim in the High Court in London against Camellia Plc (and other UK companies in the Camellia Group) for alleged human rights abuses at its Kenyan plantations.

The Indonesian government says it will expand a national “food estate” program by establishing millions of hectares of new crop plantations in Sumatra and Papua. To expand the project into North Sumatra and Papua, the government is seeking out private investors; but activists say this risks a repeat of the current corporate takeover of Indigenous and community lands.

A new report released today by environmental campaign group Mighty Earth alleges that Michelin, the world’s largest tire company, was complicit in and covered up industrial-scale deforestation of over 2,500 hectares of rainforest in the run-up to the launch of its flagship ‘eco-friendly’ sustainable natural rubber joint venture project in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Latest research conducted by the Public Trust Media Group on SOCFIN rubber plantations (SRC and LAC) has documented gross human rights violations.

« L’accaparement des terres pour les transformer en une plantation de palmiers à huile grande comme plus de six fois Dakar est l’atteinte la plus grave commise par l’agro-industrie aux droits des populations autochtones dans la région depuis des années », fustige Greenpeace Afrique

Ten civil society organizations (CSOs) members of Civil Society Coalition Against Food Estate in Papua strongly reject President Jokowi’s plan to develop a food estate with an area of ​​2,052,551 ha.

Dans une correspondance adressée aux clients et fournisseurs de l’entreprise le 21 septembre 2020, l’association dénonce les pratiques inhumaines de la filiale de Socfin sur les communautés locales.

Palm-producing company Poligrow has an undeniable role in land-grabbing and intimidation in the municipality of Mapiripán, Colombia. Even so, it plans to expand its operations.

Avec une plantation sur 50 000 ha à Campo et Niete, la société anonyme Cameroun Vert (Camvert) cherche à conquérir le cœur des populations riveraines

Nyéléni Newsletter's second edition fo 2020 looks at how land-related struggles have evolved over the past decades, starting with demands for agrarian reform to a more comprehensive framing.

The Singaporean-owned company has about 7600 hectares of farmland including a network of 25 properties in the Murray Valley and near Bendigo and in the Victorian Wimmera, carrying about 40,000 breeding sows.

La création des réserves foncières, les concessions agricoles et les locations sont sources de litiges au Cameroun

Une lettre ouverte de 200 organisations à l'AFD souligne qu'"il n’est plus à démontrer que les activités des banques publiques de développement ont alimenté des violations des droits humains (telles représailles, accaparement de terres et expulsions forcées) sans que les communautés affectées ne puisse accéder à quelconque remède utile."

L'accaparement de terres des habitants de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal par des investisseurs du Golfe suscite colère et tensions en Mauritanie.

Le débat national sur les conflits fonciers nécessite que l’on réexamine les dossiers fonciers en attente d’un traitement urgent et de prises de décisions étatiques publiques tout aussi urgentes concernant les terres du département de Dagana dans le Waalo. Nous commençons cette analyse avec la commune de Mbane, écrit Yassine Fall.

Agilis Partners has released a statement denying all allegations of land grabbing and assuring the public and its stakeholders that they have not evicted anyone from their land.

Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s land leasing policy has led to more than a tenth of the country’s land area being leased and has become increasingly controversial because of its negative impact on local livelihoods.

More than 35,000 people from over 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres of land in Kiryandongo, Uganada to pave way for large scale farming. Foreign investors dealing in agribusiness have been blamed for the ongoing land grabbing.

About 100 farmers’ households have been exploiting the area for decades and do not intend to leave it.

Victims of land grabbing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda have come out to decry the deplorable conditions that they are subjected to by the land evictors at the hand of security officials.

Thousands of families are being violently evicted from their farms to make way for foreign-owned plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.

La Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun (Synaparcam) qui depuis plusieurs années, lutte en faveur du respect des droits des communautés, a organisé un atelier de renforcement de capacités sur le plaidoyer communautaire

Les éleveurs Mbororos et agriculteurs vivant à Mbakana sont inquiets pour leur avenir. La raison : l’Etat du Cameroun a accordé 100 000 hectares à un investisseur dans le cadre d’un projet d’élevage.

As demand for Brazilian soy soars, agribusinesses and farmland developers are seizing the opportunity to expand in the biodiverse Cerrado biome in western Bahia, Brazil.

An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.