Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries, almost 4 a week, making it the worst year on record.
Customary land registration processes can easily be captured by local ‘big men’ and companies with disastrous consequences for local people, says study on oil palm expansion in Papua New Guinea.
Golden Veroleum quits Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in response to accusations from a global watchdog that it failed to get consent from communities before expanding onto their lands.
Ramón Bedoya says his father, a land activist, was shot by local paramilitaries in league with agribusiness and narcos who fill the void left by Farc rebels
Villagers in a southern Philippine island of Mindanao massacred amid conflict between indigenous community and coffee plantation
Food security of the Gulf states is heavily dependent on foreign imports. Europe and the Americas have been the traditional markets supplying food to them, but recent development of African Continental Free Trade Area may encourage Gulf investors to embrace potential opportunities in Africa.
Governments should recognize indigenous and community land rights, engage in better monitoring of company misconduct during land acquisitions, and ensure that businesses secure the free, prior and informed consent of the people who live on the land before they begin operations.
Cownexxion indicates its interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria on sidelines of meeting between NIgeria's President and CEOs of Dutch companies at The Hague.
Thai investments in ASEAN have intensified at a breakneck pace. But without mechanisms to ensure compliance with international human rights standards, they have resulted in land conflicts and a wide array of human rights infringements.
One Tree Agriculture is owned by private equity fund manager, Proterra Investment Partners, which was spun off in 2016 as an investment advisory and private equity fund manager by Cargill’s Black River Asset Management.
Myanmar should move quickly to settle decades-old claims by farmers forced from their land by the country’s military, said Human Rights Watch in new report,adding that the government should also put new laws in place to protect farmers and other small landholders from further land grabs in the future.
During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.