“The problem we have here is the replanting by SOCAPALM and we are asking for vital space for our survival, but SOCAPALM does not want to cooperate,” Yomba Bernard, a notable of Apouh told The Guardian Post.

La organización Iniciativa Cristiana Romero evaluó el comportamiento de dos empresas de palma aceitera en Guatemala y una en Honduras que exportan hacia Alemania. Los resultados indican contaminación del agua en los ríos, degradación ambiental, adquisición irregular de tierras y violación de derechos laborales.

En abril del año 1994, las tierras asignadas para la cooperativa El Chile fueron despojadas mediante una venta ilegal. Esta transacción fue realizada por personas sin representación legítima de los campesinos, para traspasar el territorio a manos de la Empresa Agropecuaria Camaro, quien a su vez cedió los títulos a Exportadora del Atlántico, perteneciente a la hondureña Corporación Dinant.

Conclusion du dialogue national inclusif qui s’est tenu du 2 au 29 avril 2024, le « démentellement » d’Olam, Arise et d’autres sociétés interrogent quelque peu.

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.

Residents of Pader Sub-county are protesting the allocation of 2,611 acres to Panacea Agribusiness Ltd, saying that more than 3,000 farmers in the area will have nowhere to grow their crops.

Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.

Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.

The cancellation of the title followed a public outcry that it was illegally issued to two individuals, as well as another suspension of a 2,300 ha land title in the same district that had been claimed by Terra Agri Solutions Ltd for a commercial farm.

Reportagem do site Salve a Floresta afirma que a chamada sustentabilidade zero, propalada pela Agropalma, não passa de um “embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma” da empresa sediada em terras do Pará entre os municípios do Acará e Tailândia numa área de 106 mil – maior do que o tamanho da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e onde estão localizadas terras particulares da família Tabaranã, áreas públicas, quilombolas e indígena.

The group, which has a dairy joint venture with Israel's LR Group, says it intends to increase its dairy capacity and invest in a 3,000-hectare property in Mindoro to "plant corn for cows" and for other purposes.

Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.

The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.

This LDPI Working Paper Series includes work in progress presented at the 2024 Global Land Grabbing Conference in Bogotá, addressing urgent challenges related to land, water, and natural resource grabbing.

Los jeans, las sudaderas con capucha, los pantalones cortos y los calcetines de H&M y Zara vendidos en España están vinculados a la deforestación ilegal a gran escala, el acaparamiento de tierras, la violencia y la corrupción.

The world's biggest cotton certification scheme is giving the green light to clothes made from cotton farmed on mega estates ‘plundering’ the Cerrado.

La société belge de plantations SIAT est définitivement passée aux mains de la société Oak & Saffron Limited, filiale du groupe nigérian Saroafrica.

Russia has seized companies belonging to agricultural firm AgroTerra and placed them under temporary management, including some backed by Dutch investment firms, a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin showed late on Monday.

The transferability of land, along with the liberalisation of agriculture and finance the Bank and IMF have pushed on Global South states, have facilitated investment in agribusiness and driven the financialisation of national agricultural sectors.

Les sociétés de crédit carbone expulsent des communautés à travers l’Afrique.

Serbian companies Industrija mesa Matijevic, Delta Holding, Almex DOO, Coric Agrar DOO and LoginEKO (owned by a married Slovenian couple), along with Al Dahra Holding LLC and Elite Agro LLC from the United Arab Emirates are currently the largest landowners in Serbia, according to a Forbes Serbia report.

Lettre ouverte de l'Association des Femmes Riveraines de la SOCAPALM d'Edea (AFRISE), au Cameroun, contre le replanting des palmiers à huile

Veripath Farmland Partners has brought its total acreage under management to approximately 120,000 acres through its latest acquisition of 1,246 acres of farmland in the Province of Alberta.

The World Bank’s independent watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), has finalized its investigation into a complaint filed five years ago, alleging grave human rights violations by communities living near the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia.

NGOs say a development bank mediation process is coercing communities into foregoing their rights to their territories and accepting a palm oil company's occupation of their lands without the time, resources, security and legal support required to adequately defend their interests.

Des ONG affirment qu'un processus de médiation des banques de développement allemande et néerlandaise contraint des communautés à renoncer à leurs droits fonciers et à accepter l'occupation continue de leurs terres par une société de huile de palme, sans avoir eu le temps, les ressources, la sécurité et le soutien juridique nécessaires pour défendre leurs intérêts.

En France, le projet de loi d’orientation agricole prévoit la création de groupements fonciers agricoles d’investissement. Ces fonds d’investissement seront en mesure de faire appel à l’épargne pour racheter le foncier agricole. On parle d’un risque de financiarisation.

The manner in which African Agriculture acquired rights to operate within the Ndiael Reserve has raised eyebrows. Local herders, whose livelihoods depend on the reserve’s resources, now face displacement and restricted access to water and grazing lands.

Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.

Un nouveau business, porté notamment par des multinationales françaises, est en train de voir le jour dans le bassin du Congo, et en particulier au Congo-Brazzaville : de gigantesques plantations forestières sont créées pour générer des crédits-carbone valorisables sur le marché volontaire du carbone ou destinés à compenser des émissions de CO2