Land grabs are partly to blame for skyrocketing violence in Central America
- Huffington Post
- 16 January 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
Land grabs for megaprojects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, monoculture agribusiness and petroleum extraction continue and even intensify.
In agricultural frontier zones, large landowners and corporations often pressure peasants to obtain legal title to the lands they farm only to buy the lands on the cheap as soon as the title is issued.
The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.
En un país con muy poca tierra cultivable como Mauritania, empresas extranjeras compran al gobierno grandes extensiones de tierra (lo que se conoce como acaparamiento de tierra) provocando la ruina de pueblos enteros y su desplazamiento
Defensor ambiental guatemalteco es asesinado y la vida de otros/as está bajo riesgo
A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered.
Au Cambodge, au Honduras, en Inde et au Guatemala, des ONG relatent des faits de répression, d'accaparements de terres et de violences ayant entraîné des morts suite aux prêts de la Société financière internationale.
Defensa de la tierra, verdad incómoda para los grupos de poder. Las y los defensores del derecho a la tierra nunca se han visto tan afectados por la represión como en 2014.
Caña y palma ponen en riesgo la desprotegida biodiversidad y soberanía alimentaria de Guatemala
Las principales organizaciones y asociaciones campesinas de distintos países de Latinoamérica exigieron hoy a los mandatarios de Paraguay y Guatemala, que restituyan las "tierras despojadas de forma ilegal y con violencia" a las comunidades de labriegos.
Lettre ouverte des riveraines au DG de la SOCAPALM
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