"Necesitamos cuestionar esta idea de que la transformación de un ecosistema rico y diverso en monocultivos de exportación trae desarrollo", señala Gabriela Russo Lopes, investigadora de DW Brasil, de la Universidad de Ámsterdam.

For farmers in Asia as elsewhere, land ownership and effective control is the key to any radical transformation of the food systems and for attempts to achieve genuine sustainable development to really matter.

A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.

Au Sénégal, les scandales fonciers impunis ont beaucoup influé sur les dernières manifestations dont l’effet déclencheur était l’arrestation du député Ousmane Sonko.

The Public Investment Fund has transferred its ownership stakes in Almarai, the National Agricultural Development Company, and the Saudi Fisheries Company to the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC).

The Indonesian government last year started developing a food estate project in Central Kalimantan. While it is currently spread over 30.000 ha of land, the size of the food estate will be extended over the next two years. Now, the food estate project has been expanded to North Sumatra, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), South Sumatra, Papua, and Riau.

La 1ère édition du « festival alimenterre » s’est clôturée autour d’un débat sur la politique du foncier face à l’accaparement des terres cultivables autour des grands centres urbains.

Des communautés continuent d’être exclus des prises de décisions concernant l’investissement et le gouvernement agit selon une approche descendante dans l’attribution des concessions.

Communities continue to be excluded from decision-making around investments and the government pursues a top-down approach to concession allocation and remains reluctant to recognize all legitimate tenure rights.

Article assesses the local impacts of farmland investments in the Kagera and Pwani regions of Tanzania, and particularly the Kagera Sugar operations in Misennyi district.

Escuela de formación feminista en agricultura está amenazada por el monocultivo de stevia para la Coca-Cola.

A palm oil conglomerate has begun clearing the ancestral forests of Indigenous tribes in Indonesia’s Papua region without the locals’ consent. Subsidiaries of Digoel Agri group have cleared 64 hectares (158 acres) of forest in the first two months of 2021.