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The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.

Le président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu) dénonce les récentes arrestations et violences policières suite aux protestations pacifiques contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC.

President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.

The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.

RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.

Since evictions started in 2017, communities have faced acts of violence meted against them by multinational companies from sexual violence against women, torture, beating, kidnap to illegal arrest and detention.

Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.

Members of the Missouri House Agriculture Committee are considering a bill to track foreign farmland holdings and cap foreign ownership of farmland at the county level to no more than 1% of the total agricultural acreage.

The United University Professions' resolution calls for an end to TIAA landholdings “associated with deforestation and human rights abuses".

David Del Curto, S.A. is a leading Chilean fruit production, packing and export company, which produces over ten different fruit types across eleven farms, while also managing one of the largest nurseries in the country.

Ce prêt à l’agribusiness, marqué par un conflit terrien violent, questionne en profondeur la politique de développement voulue par BIO et l’état belge.

A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.