A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.
The expansion of industrial agriculture in Brazil has been an international affair, linking pension funds, university endowments, and major financial actors across the world.
Pesquisa da Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos humanos evidencia vínculos de empresas com queimadas, desmatamento e expropriação de comunidades rurais; SLC, Insolo, BrasilAgro, Dahma e Radar/Tellus também são citadas
More than 35,000 people who were evicted from their land by multinational agribusiness companies in Kiryandongo district are on the verge of starvation.
A Colombian company co-owned by Miami developer Moishe Mana produces dairy, Tahiti limes, mangoes, oranges, pineapples and corn on 2,471 acres of farms.
The total cropland controlled by foreign interests in 2020 was 10.9 million acres, up from 4.1 million acres in 2010.
Witness Radio surveyed some projects in Uganda funded by development banks and found agony, illegal evictions, abject poverty, environmental degradation, and loss of life among others.
African Agriculture Inc’s vision, according to Gora Seck, President of the Board, LFT Senegal, is to create 5,000 jobs, sow over 20,000 hectares and develop exports of alfalfa to other countries.
Agilis is one of the three multinational companies that have been implicated in the land grabbing scandal which has rendered thousands of smallholder farmers homeless in the Kiryandongo district, Uganda.
Students at the University of Iowa Campaign have joined a campaign demanding TIAA divest billions from oil, coal, and fracked gas and to stop its acquisition of farm and timberland around the world by 2025.
La société américaine African Agriculture Inc., qui détient la totalité des Fermes de la Teranga avec ses 20 000 ha dans le nord du Sénégal, va procéder à une introduction en bourse afin de lever des fonds pour sa première mise en culture de 10 000 ha.
US-based African Agriculture Inc., which wholly owns the 20,000 ha Les Fermes de la Teranga in northern Senegal, is going to do an IPO to raise funds for its first 10,000 ha planting.
