Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.

Deforestation by land grabbers in southern Piauí intensified in the second half of 2022. Community leaders suspect that the action of land grabbers is aimed at displacing them from their territories.

Over the past five years, at least two people from rural communities have been killed weekly in the struggles against land grabs, based on estimates by the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific

Protestors accused the Chinese company PT Julong Group Indonesia of taking over local land illegally for palm oil cultivation.

As the climate emergency gets more acute and devastating everyday, we can’t waste more time waiting for the decisive actions required to end the ravages caused by industrial agriculture in Brazil.

The most effective means of countering corporate power is to restore control of the land and agricultural knowledge to the communities who live on and with the land.

A regional civil society group "Friends of the Earth Africa" has launched a campaign intended to urge ECOWAS to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations.

The resistance processes of the communities of La Chiquita, Guadualito and Barranquilla de San Javier in the region of Esmeraldas continue to generate outrage and solidarity among other communities, and internationally.

A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in

Participants of Liberia's Civil Society Organizations Oil Palm Working Group, through the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), have agreed on several strategies to work within making the sector better.

Hassad has invested in international institutions and companies operating in the grain, meat, poultry, livestock and fish sectors, in a number of countries such as Australia, Canada, Turkey, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.

Quelque 145 Camerounais ont été déboutés vendredi par la justice française alors qu’ils souhaitaient contraindre le groupe Bolloré à fournir des documents censés établir ses liens avec une société camerounaise qu’ils accusent d’attenter à leurs droits.

Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.

Mbane, Ndengler, Mbodiène, Diass... Les litiges fonciers se multiplient au Sénégal depuis plusieurs années et ne trouvent toujours pas de solution durable.

Le 7 décembre 2020, l’eau entrait à la Bourse de Chicago, ouvrant la voie à la marchandisation de cette ressource vitale. Et surtout à la spéculation.

Le lauréat pour l'Afrique est Aminata Fabba, présidente de la Malen Affected Land Owners Association, paysanne et défenseuse du droit à la terre dans le district provincial de Pujehun. MALOA est un mouvement communautaire qui résiste à la SOCFIN et à d’autres entreprises de biocarburant en Sierra Leone.

The 2021 Front Line Defenders Award Laureates include Aminata Fabba, Chair of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA), a farmer and a grassroots land rights defender resisting SOCFIN and other companies in Sierra Leone.

À la veille de la réunion annuelle des banques publiques de développement à Rome, 280 groupes de 70 pays ont signé une lettre dénonçant leur financement de l'expansion de l'agriculture industrielle, de la destruction de l'environnement et du contrôle du système alimentaire par les entreprises.

In Brazil, green land grabbing allows owners to legally deforest a higher percentage of their actual farmland by counting the illegally acquired land as their set-aside natural reserve.

Stanbic Bank, in Kenya, is now free to auction assets of Karuturi Ltd over a debt of USD 16.6 million after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by its shareholders and guarantors.

Quienes actualmente controlan los flujos financieros del mundo no son capaces de apoyar a los productores de alimentos y a los sistemas alimentarios —que pueden combatir la crisis climática o las muchas otras crisis que afectan a la alimentación y a la agricultura. Nuestro desafío es lograr que tanto las tierras agrícolas como el dinero no sigan en sus manos, tan pronto como podamos.

Qui possède les terres agricoles en France ? De moins en moins d’agriculteurs, et de plus en plus de sociétés, parfois étrangères, échappant à tout contrôle. Une proposition de loi promet de lutter contre ce phénomène.

Las fundaciones operan en enclaves estratégicos con valor medioambiental

Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.

Ukrainian pig company KSG Agro and its Swiss partner plan to build a breeding complex for 50,000 pigs in Kazakhstan, which is free of African Swine Fever, to export pork to China.

Des représentants des peuples autochtones d’Amazonie brésilienne et colombienne, ainsi que des ONG françaises et américaines, assignent en justice le groupe Casino en raison de ses ventes de produits à base de viande bovine liée à la déforestation et à l’accaparement de terres

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.

A study of 1,500 large land deals totalling 37 million hectares - across Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and eastern Europe - showed that clearing the land for farming may have emitted about 2.3 gigatonnes of carbon emissions.

Indonesia sits at the heart of the global palm oil trade. In 2002, one company PT Erasakti Wira Forestama (EWF) offered villagers in Batanghari, Jambi province a one-time payment for their land. Peatlands were converted to plantations — and the repercussions of the decision are still felt today. Some villager

Kalungu leaders have blocked a move by the proprietors of Lukaya Natural Rice Farm to sack 412 casual workers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.