Peruvian and international organisations filed a complaint to the OECD against Louis Dreyfus for its sourcing of palm oil from the Ucayali region in the Peruvian Amazon.

Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry

Más de 100 organizaciones denuncian a la RSPO durante su 19ª asamblea general por el lavadoverde de la destrucción del medio ambiente, los abusos de los derechos humanos y laborales y el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de la industria del aceite de palma

Plus de 100 organisations dénoncent la RSPO lors de sa 19ème assemblée générale pour avoir écoblanchi la destruction de l'environnement, les violations des droits humains et du travail et l'accaparement des terres par l'industrie de l’huile de palme.

Lebih dari 100 organisasi mengecam RSPO dalam sidang umum ke-19nya karena melakukan greenwashing terhadap perusakan lingkungan, pelanggaran hak asasi manusia dan buruh, serta perampasan tanah oleh industri kelapa sawit.

Vincent Bolloré, son groupe et ses divers porte-parole restent extrêmement chatouilleux au sujet des plantations africaines et asiatiques. Au point de multiplier les procès en diffamation sur le sujet, et de se voir accusés de mener des poursuites-bâillons destinées à faire taire leurs adversaires parlant un peu trop fort sur ce thème.

The dispute centers on the community’s entitlement to a proportion of oil palm company PT Anam Koto’s concession under Indonesia’s plasma program.

For more than a decade, some Bunong villagers have been trying to reclaim and gain legal recognition for their customary land that have been acquired by Luxembourg-based Socfin Group’s subsidiaries since 2007. Some details of the settlement were released this September, in a joint statement issued by the firms and community representatives who negotiated on behalf of 210 families in five villages.

Minerva is 35% owned by the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company, which already has 211,000 hectares of farmland and two mutton processing plants in Western Australia.

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

In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.

The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.

Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.

Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.

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El acaparamiento de tierras en Haití hace que las mujeres sufran violaciones a los derechos ambientales y de las mujeres, y exacerba la vulnerabilidad climática.

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

La RSPO a reconnu les infractions commises par Socapalm dans le cadre de ses activités, à la suite des dénonciations faites par des médias étrangers en 2020 et en 2021, mais lui a tout de même délivré des certifications pour nombre de ses plantations, au grand dam des Ong nationales et internationales qui exigent leur annulation.

The law seeks to impose supply chain due diligence obligations on companies that import and trade forest risk commodities, such as cattle, soy and wood.

Morocco is seeking investors for a $213 million agriculture project in Western Sahara that will establish farms on 5,200 ha for growing fruit, vegetables and animal feed.

Fresh controversy has emerged over the leading certification scheme for sustainable palm oil after a verification mission exposed ongoing issues around certified oil palm plantations in Cameroon.

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.

As the Ukraine war sparks shortages, China looks to invest abroad to secure food supplies

Dans le nord-ouest du Sénégal, une coalition de 37 villages proteste depuis dix ans contre l’attribution de 20 000 hectares à une entreprise agroalimentaire. Ce conflit foncier illustre un phénomène généralisé sur le continent africain : l’accaparement de terres par des multinationales.

Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.

A claim circulating on social media that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has sold off 17 million hectares of farmland to US corporations is baseless.

Scotland’s richest man, an oil giant, an earl, and private equity and property firms are among those developing carbon credit projects that critics say are pushing up land prices and allowing companies to “greenwash” their image.

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.

An Iranian official says that Venezuela has agreed to provide one million hectares of agricultural land for Iran’s overseas cultivation projects to secure food.