GRAIN

As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.

There’s little doubt that the use of palm oil is expanding rapidly throughout the world, and with it the need for millions of hectares of land to grow oil palm trees. The results can be devastating for local communities.

Some analysts worry that family farms are under increasing pressure from speculators, as prices for land rise due to a growing world population.

Gobiernos y empresas han acaparado en los países en desarrollo un área mayor que México

Des sociétés étrangères ont signé plus de 60 accords représentant 4 millions d'hectares pour développer des plantations de palmiers à huile en Afrique, selon GRAIN.

Over the past fifteen years, foreign companies have signed over 60 deals covering nearly 4 million hectares in central and western Africa for the development of oil palm plantations, reports GRAIN.

This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.

Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN

Police in Sierra Leone open fire on villagers gathered to express their grievances over the lease of 6,500 hectares of land to the Socfin Agricultural Company. Only the latest incident in a deteriorating situation.

A controversial foreign investment to produce agrofuels for Europe on 20,000 ha in Senegal has angered communities and sparked violent clashes between peasants and the police.

Mientras que el 40% de la población subsahariana no dispone de acceso al agua potable, los inversores internacionales hacen negocio acaparando los territorios por donde transita.

África se está convirtiendo en un goloso pastel para las grandes empresas planetarias en su incesante y despiadada búsqueda del lucro, ahora que otros continentes están agotados.