The Vicuñas and the $9,000 sweater
- Bloomberg
- 13 Mar 2024
Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
Thirty years of providing the world’s finest wool to the fashion house Loro Piana has done almost nothing for the Indigenous people of the Peruvian Andes.
Eni is pursuing agricultural production for biofuels in six African countries, including the Republic of the Congo where collaboration with ‘Big Agri’ companies risks land dispossession and environmental degradation.
Bonifiche Ferraresi, one of the largest agricultural companies by cultivated area in Europe, acquires a 1,700 ha banana plantation in the Volta River region and another concession of 5,900 hectares for further cultivation.
Implantée depuis quinze ans à Madagascar, la société italienne « Tozzi green » exploite de milliers d’hectares de soja, maïs ou jatropha. Des associations paysannes demandent aujourd’hui son départ, l’accusant de ne pas contribuer au développement local.
Le résultat des projets agro-industriels menés à Madagascar par la société italienne Tozzi Green sont "mitigés", selon le gouvernement belge, réagissant à la plainte déposée par plusieurs ONG devant l'OCDE
La société italienne Tozzi Green, active à Madagascar et soutenue par la banque de développement belge BIO, est attaquée devant l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques par plusieurs organisations italienne, française et malgache pour ses activités agro-industrielles
On 13 October 2023, ActionAid Italy, the collective for the defense of Malagasy lands - TANY and BMTT filed a complaint at the Italian NCP against the Italian renewable energy company JTF Tozzi Green. The complainants allege that the leases and usage of land in Madagascar by JTF Tozzy Green’s subsidiary JTF Madagascar infringe on the human rights of the people living in the Ihorombe region.
The parties will explore opportunities to valorize residues from agro-industrial value chains to produce vegetable oils, which are not in competition with the food chain, for Eni’s biorefineries.
Levantamento inédito do observatório De Olho nos Ruralistas identificou 1.692 fazendas com incidência em território indígena; por trás das sobreposições estão gigantes do agronegócio, indústria armamentista e investidores dos cinco continentes
Ten years after the signing of their first lease, we interviewed 30 inhabitants about their experiences and opinions concerning the activities of the Italian JTF-Tozzi Green in Madagascar.
El caso de Benetton en Argentina es extraordinario —los chubutenses reconocen que la empresa autogobierna las localidades donde opera, en particular El Maitén— pero es un ejemplo de un modelo de concentración de tierras que persiste en la provincia
Dix ans après la signature du premier bail, quelles étaient les réalités vécues par les riverains des plantations de la société JTF-Tozzi Green à Madagascar ?
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