BIDCO project wreaks environmental havoc, hunger, and human rights abuse in Kalangala
Charles Vilgrain, président du directoire d'AgroGeneration, la filiale agricole de Charles Beigbeder. Crédits photo : JEROME MARS/JDD/SIPA/SIPA
Marine Fona and the other of villagers Woreh Yeama at the site where they were previously cultivated their vegetables. Now is the sugar cane fields. Photo: Anna-Klara Bankel / Swedish Radio.
Biståndsminister Gunilla Carlsson. Foto: Bertil Ericson/Scanpix.
Concerned Oromo community members from different European countries voiced their anger and protest against massive land grabbing, human rights violations, and grave situations of political prisoners and the Oromo refugees.
The three-day campaign worked to bring the consequences of land-grabbing and human rights violations in Oromia and Ethiopia to the attention of the European Union (EU)
Opponents of Wall Street land grabs in Africa protested outside the New York conference
Sources told GRAIN that the Saudi Star farm (above) was attacked at about 6:00pm on April 28th, leaving four people dead: two Pakistan nationals working to advise the company on rice production and two Ethiopian highlanders. Sources say the local populations working at the farm have fled for fear of revenge from the members of the army guarding the Saudi Star operation. (Photo: Johan Bävman/ Moment Agency)
Dorothy Dyton and her husband, Dyton Gerard were among about 2,000 smallholder farmers who relied on a tract of communal land in Malawi’s southern Chikhwawa District to grow food for their family until the land was sold for sugar cane production in 2010. Kristy Siegfried/IRIN
Le creusement d’un canal par l’entrepreneur isole complètement le village.