Research by investigative non-profit Public Eye has revealed that trading companies with a Swiss presence – or their subsidiaries – own over 550 plantations covering over 2.7 million hectares.
In September 2021, the signature of the final agreements between representatives from indigenous communities in Busra commune and the rubber company Socfin Cambodia concluded a five-year mediation process that started in 2016.
An analysis of land conflicts involving palm oil companies in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of the commodity, shows the country lacks effective mechanisms for addressing these problems.
WRM Bulletin presents 5 perspectives from a coalition of movements, organizations and social pastoral bodies that have worked for decades in defense of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes and their peoples and communities.
Communities and organizations from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico came together in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico to share their experiences with the advance of industrial oil palm monoculture and its impacts.
The 3rd edition of the West African caravan of the Global Convergence of Struggles for Land, Water and Seeds has commenced.
Minister Robert Montague said that the Ministry will be moving to secure some 5,000 acres of “unclaimed lands” to commence growing the castor plant.
Some 145 Cameroonians have asked the French courts to force the Bolloré group to provide documents to establish its links with the Cameroonian Company of Oil Palm Plantations (Socapalm) that they accuse of violating their rights.
Increased foreign ownership and corporatisation of agriculture makes farm ownership challenging for young families in Australia
This comic is based on field research conducted around the Feronia palm oil plantation in Tshopo province in north-east DR Congo as part of a British-Academy funded project on “environmental defenders and atmospheres of violence” hosted by the University of Sussex.
In order to attract capital, selected regions for development projects must dramatize their potential as places for investment, carefully selecting project locations and participants who will make compromises so as to conceal failure, virtually guaranteeing that the programme will be declared a success when the time comes for evaluation.
Milltrust Agricultural Investments, which owns farmlands in Australia and New Zealand, has been acquired by UK-based Future Planet Capital.
