Nestle response to the Cambodian farmers lawsuit against sugar producer, Mitr Pohl over alleged land grabbing. The Thai company, Mitr Pohl is direct supplier to Nestlé and tier 2 supplier in other supply chains, mostly via traders.
Award-winning Cameroonian journalist Madeleine Ngeunga and Fern’s Indra Van Gisbergen recently visited villages in the shadow of Socapalm’s oil palm plantations to see if issues driving the dispute between locals and the company are being resolved.
Abraaj Capital, the PE firm that was very active in the rush to buy global farmland after the food financial crises of 2008, has collapsed and is under investigation for “mismanagement, comingling of funds and misappropriation of assets"
Peoples Dispatch speaks to the Southern Peasant’s Federation of Thailand’s Theeranate Chaisuwan on the struggles of this landless workers’ movement for land held illegally by a palm oil company.
Interview with top executives of Phoenix Group, the world's 3rd largest rice trader controlling 150,000 ha of farmland in different parts of the world
Statement by People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty on the ongoing threats, criminalisation and killing of farmers and land rights defenders in the Philippines.
Vinamilk’s general director informed shareholders that the company had found a Japanese partner to build a certified organic dairy farm in Laos
Cambodia provincial government on Tuesday called on civil society organisations to help verify data involving land dispute between villagers in Koh Kong province and a Chinese company. The land in question is in the midst of a dispute with Union Development Group (UDG).
Community land represents the backbone of rural life. Its loss—whether due to conflict, infrastructure projects, private investments or natural disasters—has grave consequences from loss of livelihood to broader environmental and social harms.
Communities affected by Maryland Oil Palm Plantation in southern Liberia have called on banks to refrain from joining a $1.5 billion syndicated loan for the palm oil giant Wilmar International. They now been accused of being anti-development and opposing the newly elected Liberian government.
Friends of the Earth Netherlands launched a report warn that Dutch Banks ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank have to take responsibility for the disastrous environmental and social consequences of providing finance to the palm oil sector at large scale.
Greenpeace Africa published a report explaining how Singaporean based Halycon Agri and its Cameroonian subsidiary- Sudcam operate a sordid rubber plantation business threats the ecosystem and local and indigenous communities in the south of Cameroon.
