« L'idée de la campagne contre Bolloré est née comme un nouveau front antifasciste, totalement connecté aux préoccupations initiales des Soulèvements de la Terre que sont la lutte contre l'artificialisation et l'accaparement des terres et de l'eau. »

Demarcação de terras indígenas na Amazônia e Cerrado protegem mais de 100 milhões de hectares contra a grilagem e desmatamento da agroindústria. No Cerrado, áreas fora de TIs perderam mais de 54% da vegetação, enquanto apenas 5% foi desmatado dentro delas. Amazônia, as áreas fora de TIs estão cerca de 16 vezes mais desmatadas que dentro delas, afirma relatório do ISA.

What can possibly be wrong about planting trees? This investigation digs deeper into a conflict unfolding in southern Madagascar, between the local community and an Italian multinational. As similar green projects multiply, this case highlights a critical challenge.

Il est désormais clair qu’African Agriculture ne tiendra pas ses promesses de « développement » de la région. Sur son lit de mort, l’entreprise doit restituer ses terres aux communautés du Sénégal, du Niger et de Mauritanie.

In recent years, Gulf economies have tackled their food dependencies not just by importing foodstuffs but through land enclosures, or the purchasing of agricultural land abroad, particularly in the Middle East, North and East Africa (but also as far as the United States and Australia)

Les gouvernements doivent veiller à ce que les projets de compensation carbone sur les terres respectent les droits d'accès et de propriété des peuples autochtones et des communautés locales.

“I’m there to make money,” Heilberg says. This time with carbon credits.

Mismo responsable por afectar miles de familias campesinas, la industria del aceite de palma que ya cubre más de 180 000 hectáreas, casi el 2.5 % del total de tierras cultivables, tiene certificación de la Mesa Redonda sobre Aceite de Palma Sostenible (RSPO). Las grandes empresas poseen el 95 % de terrenos con este cultivo.

The Afrise women's association launched an international petition to stop the replanting of oil palm monocultures around their homes and over the grave sites of their ancestors.

SAO Agro-Allied Service Limited was granted 100,000 hectares by the Ondo state government to cultivate oil palm, but some portions of the company’s concession are said to overlap with thousands of smallholder farms.

Quinze ans après la divulgation du projet Daewoo-Logistics à Madagascar, l’engouement des dirigeants successifs de Madagascar pour la recherche d’entreprises étrangères pour exploiter de vastes surfaces de terres au pays et pour l’agrobusiness reste inchangé, il s’est même intensifié

Amidst intensified conflicts stemming from the presence of the Socfin Agricultural Company in the Chiefdom, the event aimed to address longstanding grievances and foster a path toward peace and development.

The company acquired 25,000 acres of land in the Tacama Savannah, within the Ebini area, located up the Upper Berbice River in Region 10.

On its 10th anniversary, the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is collaborating with several leading research hubs in organizing an International Conference on Global Land Grabbing on 19-21 March 2024 in Bogota, Colombia.

En su primer caso abordando a un gran comercializador de aceite de palma, el Punto Nacional de Contacto de las Directrices para Empresas Multinacionales de la OCDE ha ofrecido sus buenos oficios en el caso presentado por Lideres y Lideresas Indígenas peruanos contra Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.

In its first case to address a major palm oil commodity trader, the Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises offered its good offices in the complaint filed by Peruvian Indigenous Leaders against Louis Dreyfus Company B.V.

Institutional investors, large corporates and big family operators are expected to dominate demand for prime farmland this financial year as smaller farmers’ buying power takes a hit from higher interest rates, lower profits.

Security guards working for the multinational fruit company Del Monte have been accused of running over two teenagers at a pineapple farm in Kenya that is currently at the centre of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses.

Comunidades rurales del estado brasileño de Piauí denuncian un aumento de la violencia contra sus líderes y de la deforestación en el Cerrado, la mayor sabana tropical del mundo.

Indonesia’s decision to revoke plantation permits across the country is marred with irregularities including companies continuing to operate or engage in conflicts with Indigenous and local communities.

The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them

In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.

The company Sequoia has obtained a lease over 60,000 hectares for a eucalyptus monoculture project in the Haut-Ogooué province, Gabon. but statements from communities and a survey of more than 1,400 people from the impacted region reveal a total rejection of this plantation project.

The downfall of US-based firm African Agriculture is being closely watched by Senegalese communities who have struggled for years for the return of their lands.

Ils s’opposent une fois de plus, et avec détermination, aux travaux de renouvellement sur le même espace, des palmiers de la Socapalm. Face à l’apathie des autorités locales qui ont l'air dépassé, l’arbitrage du Mindcaf devient une nécessité.

The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.

Le groupe français Bolloré est accusé depuis des années de ne pas exercer son devoir de surveillance en ce qui concerne les violations des droits humains autour des plantations de caoutchouc et de palmiers à huile en Afrique et en Asie. En raison d’un manque de volonté de dialogue à ce sujet, l’ASIR a décidé de recommander l’exclusion de l’entreprise.

For years, the French Bolloré Group has been accused of failing to fulfil its duty of care regarding human rights abuses in connection with rubber and palm oil plantations in Africa and Asia. Given the company's unwillingness to engage in dialogue on this issue, SVVK has decided to recommend the company's exclusion.

New study exposes how land grabs in various forms have led to doubling land prices globally since 2008, and tripling in Central Europe, placing unprecedented strain on farmers and rural communities.

Global institutional investors, led by Canadian pension funds, are piling into the sector, a trend mirroring growing allocations to the farming and related rural sectors worldwide.