Un nouveau rapport sur la stratégie fiscale du groupe agroalimentaire Socfin révèle comment les multinationales peuvent transférer leurs bénéfices des pays d’Afrique et d’Asie où sont produites les matières premières vers des paradis fiscaux tels que la Suisse.

A new report on the tax strategy of agribusiness corporation Socfin reveals how multinational companies can shift profits from countries where they produce commodities in Africa and Asia to tax havens like Switzerland.

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.

On the eve of an annual gathering of public development banks, 280 groups from 70 countries sign letter slamming them for bankrolling the expansion of industrial agriculture.

The EU is trying to move soya production from Brazil to eastern Europe where big conglomerates are buying up fertile land in the country, depleting soils, planting illegal GMOs and polluting fresh water sources.

More than a decade since the surge in large-scale land acquisitions worldwide, many land deals remain in limbo. They nonetheless have far-reaching consequences for those who depend on land as foundational to life.

86 % des citoyens interrogés par le CNCD-11.11.11 et European Coalition for Corporate Justice sont d’accord avec l’idée que les entreprises devraient être légalement obligées de s’assurer qu’elles ne sont pas impliquées dans des violations des droits humains telles que le travail forcé ou l’accaparement de terres.

In de Democratische Republiek Congo heeft AFD (De Franse ontwikkelingshulp, vert.) gedurende acht jaar een palmolieplantage gefinancierd waarvan de beheerders en het beveiligingsbedrijf beschuldigd worden van moord en landroof. Totdat ze zich er uiteindelijk aan het einde van 2020 van distancieerden.

A campaign by U.S. and Brazilian activists challenging TIAA and other financial firms’ complicity in land grabs and deforestation in Brazil is scoring major victories.

En République démocratique du Congo, l’AFD a financé pendant huit ans une plantation d’huile de palme dont les gérants et la société de gardiennage sont accusés de meurtres et d’accaparement des terres. Avant d’enfin prendre ses distances fin 2020.

Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.

New food security alliances discussed during H.E Mariam Almheiri's visit to Ukraine following updates to legislation on foreign agricultural investment

Uganda's Non-Governmental Organization Bureau has suspended 54 organizations for alleged 'non-compliance', including Witness-Radio, which has been defending several communities whose lands have been grabbed by foreign agribusinesses.

New Forests and Alberta Investment Management Corporation have agreed to buy Lawson Grains, which owns a 90,500 hectare agricultural land estate across New South Wales and Western Australia.

Australia’s second-biggest farmland investor has sold its Lawson Grains portfolio comprising 105,000 hectares of crop land in NSW and Western Australia to Sydney-based global forestry investment manager New Forests and Canada’s Alberta Investment Management Corporation.

A controlling interest in the Murray River Land Trust Portfolio of about 15,000ha "owned, contracted and optioned land" near Strathmerton has been taken by a private equity firm.

Whether foreigners should be allowed to buy land is one of the bones of contention surrounding the reform, with more than 80 percent of Ukrainians opposed to it.

Agriculture, long overlooked as a handy defensive investment space by fund managers more interested in infrastructure, commercial real estate and shopping centres, has become the focus of big spending activity of late.

Global investment company Proterra Investment Partners is divesting its Australian farm portfolio – the Corinella Group Pty Ltd consisting of 49 farms across southeastern Australia with expectations of fetching A$350 million.

An Australian cattle farm was used by Chinese-owned company United World Enterprises to lure retirees into investing up to $46 million for fake agritourism and aged-care village schemes.

While the governments chant the mantra of "leaving no one behind", it is ironic that they are abetting corporate grabbing of land and resources, which is pushing farmers out of agriculture.

This community of itinerant farmers believes it was robbed of nearly 7,000 hectares of its land when the Cambodian government granted a concession to a joint venture in which the Bolloré group is a stakeholder.

Cette affaire illustre la difficulté des peuples autochtones à faire valoir leurs droits face à des multinationales.

The court of Nanterre has just dismissed 80 Bunong farmers who accused the French group of illegally appropriating their land in Cambodia. Ten years ago, Noam Léandri from Angers was commissioned by the International Federation for Human Rights to produce a report on the subject. He looks back.

The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.

Le tribunal français a trouvé qu' "aucun des 80 demandeurs et intervenants volontaires ne justifie d'un droit réel ou personnel pour exploiter les terres litigieuses".

Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on Friday by the judicial court of Nanterre. They believed that they had been robbed of their ancestral forest by the Bolloré group, who replaced it with rubber plantations. The farmers' lawyer has appealed against this judgment.

«Les communautés autochtones au Brésil, chassées de leurs terres, n’ont jamais été consultées au cours des négociations» de l'accord de libre-échange AELE-Mercosur

An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million

Une bataille juridique a éclaté sur la propriété des Plantations et Huileries du Congo, une entreprise qui contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres pour des plantations de palmier à huile en République démocratique du Congo.