When the government of Paraguay enacted a law banning deforestation in 2004, it marked what might have become one of the most significant success stories in global forest conservation. Instead, it helped spark one of the world’s most pressing environmental crises.
Report exposes how authoritarian development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and marginalized the country’s most vulnerable citizens.
With the impacts of climate change threatening food supply as population grows, China is buying land on other continents to grow more crops.
Expansion of palm oil producers into Latin America, the "new frontier for global expansion" is snagging on confusion over land rights – which is encouraging some groups to expand into rainforest.
Bollore seems to think all of the countries in central Africa are colonies there for its private exploitation and its own financial bottom line.
Company bosses and politicians complicit in violently seizing land, razing tropical forests or poisoning water sources could soon find themselves standing trial in the Hague alongside war criminals and dictators
Conflicts over land are likely to increase following a peace deal as once no-go areas open up for business and development projects, experts say
In March the World Bank board granted a waiver of its current safeguard policy for indigenous peoples in relation to a loan to the government of Tanzania for SAGCOT, a multi-million dollar public-private partnership agribusiness development project.
The financing is aimed at helping Maïsadour to increase its production of fruit and vegetables in Morocco and particularly the rural region of Souss-Massa in the country.
As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for industrial agro-business.
Virtually none of the promises made by the company to the communities in exchange for lands were kept.
A new website has been launched this week to monitor the devastating impact of illegal large-scale commercial agriculture as a driver of global deforestation.
