Mientras los bancos de desarrollo se reúnen en una cumbre mundial, las organizaciones condenan la financiación de los agronegocios y piden inversiones públicas en agroecología y sistemas alimentarios locales.

While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.

A l’heure où des centaines de milliers de personnes, partout dans le monde, défilent pour la planète, alors que les conférences internationales consacrées au réchauffement climatique se multiplient, sur le continent africain, c’est business as usual.

Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.

The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank stop funding projects, especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, that result in landgrabbing.

Grassroots International is supporting partners and allies in a global campaign to stop violent and illegal land grabs at their source: the massive financial investments of pension funds and college endowments.

Tensions between local communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Canadian oil palm company Feronia have escalated in recent months following a complaint presented last year to the company’s international financial backers.

The courageous victory of the villagers of Port Loko to get their lands back is an inspiration to communities affected by oil palm plantations from across Africa and the world.

The intensifying US-China trade war, plus our comparatively cheap agricultural land are among key reasons overseas investor groups have ramped up buying interest in rural Australia this year.

No Brasil, o Mato Grosso e o Matopiba são as regiões preferenciais de grandes aquisições, de acordo com Márcio Perin, coordenador da área de Terras da consultoria Informa Economics IEG/FNP, referência na análise dos preços e transações de terra no país.

China's foreign investment and cooperation in agriculture must recognize the "deep changes in the domestic and foreign environment," "seize opportunities" and "take the initiative" according to Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs officials .

A segunda edição do Seminário Internacional "Fundos de Pensões, Mercados Financeiros e Especulação do Território" será realizada amanhã, dia 15 de fevereiro, no Centro de Pós-Graduação da Universidade de Nova York.

Plus de 20 millions de personnes sont menacées par la famine dans quatre pays : Soudan du Sud, où la famine a été déclarée, Nigeria, Yémen, et Somalie, où l'insécurité alimentaire est critique. L'occasion de parler de souveraineté alimentaire et du droit des peuples à disposer de leur terre agricole.

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.

Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on Tuesday.

Vendredi 3 juin, des ressortissants africains, des associations et des syndicats perturbent l’assemblée générale du groupe Bolloré à Puteaux.

On Friday 3 June, African citizens, organisations and unions will disrupt the shareholder meeting of the Bolloré group at its headquarters in Puteaux, just outside of Paris, France.

One year after their arrest on March 15, 2015, three food, land, and human rights defenders continue to languish in an Ethiopian jail on the spurious charge of “terrorism”.

While we welcome the Financial Times' mention of our report on TIAA’s investments in Brazil, we are disappointed that the article quotes from an email by TIAA dismissing the allegations in our report as “inaccurate and without merit” without providing grounds for such claims.

Em um esforço gigantesco, o grupo financeiro americano e seus parceiros acumularam vastas áreas agrícolas, apesar de uma tentativa do governo brasileiro em 2010 para proibir que tais negócios se efetivassem em grande escala por parte de exploradores estrangeiros.

Japanese groups assess the JICA contracts with the ‘Communications Strategy’ consultants and the ProSAVANA Master Plan (MP) Japanese consultant reports

Vers un bouleversement des pratiques agricoles paysannes ?

A petition denouncing the unjust imprisonment of three Ethiopian human rights defenders is being presented this week to the Ethiopian government as well as its financial backers.

O grupo financeiro americano e seus parceiros acumularam novas áreas de exploração de terras agrícolas, apesar de uma medida do governo do Brasil em 2010 para proibir efetivamente tais negócios em grande escala por estrangeiros.

The American financial group and its partners amassed vast new holdings of farmland despite a move by Brazil’s government in 2010 to effectively ban such large-scale deals by foreigners.

The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22.

Ce bulletin de WRM vise à dénoncer l’expansion des plantations de palmiers à huile et à divulguer certains effets négatifs qu’elle a sur les peuples des forêts et sur leurs territoires.

WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.

ADECRU has just launched an online version of a documentary on this massive land grab in Mozambique