NGOs from Korea and Indonesia file OECD complaint against POSCO International for causing palm oil abuses

Organisé par la Convergence des luttes pour la terre et l'eau ouest-africaine

The government has prioritised provision of land to investors, mainly large scale and foreign-based, free of charge or for a nominal sum, under an incorrect assumption that this will result in livelihood improvement for all the people.

Tyson Foods, the largest meat processing company in the U.S., will invest in the construction of a modern meat processing complex in Kazakhstan with the Kusto Group, a Singapore-based company involved in beef production in Kazakhstan.

Plus de 30 communautés, dont les communautés autochtones Baka, vivent au sein et aux abords du site sur lequel s’est installé Sudcam, dont la concession empiète très largement sur leurs terres coutumières.

China hosted African agricultural leaders for a forum to expand and deepen cooperation, investment, and trade with African agriculture over the next 3 years. And 11 project agreements were signed by government departments, international organizations, research units, and companies, adding to 115 agricultural projects that China has in two-thirds of African countries.

Au Cameroun, les défenseurs de l’environnement subissent toutes sortes de pression selon une coalition d’ONG locales qui mène une campagne contre la criminalisation des défenseurs des droits fonciers.

La compañía líder en agricultura concentrada adquirió 2261 hectáreas en Georgia y la marca Generation Farms

Indonesian government have alleged that permits underpinning a multi-billion dollar plantation project in Papua were falsified. The land is being opened up by investors whose identity is hidden behind anonymously owned companies, as part of a plan to develop an oil palm plantation almost twice the size of London in the remote region.

A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, is engaged in land grabbing, deforestation and killing of endangered elephant calf within its plantation

Au courant d’une énième tentative d’accaparement de leur terre, les populations de 15 villages de cette commune du département de Kaolack ont dit toute leur colère face à la presse.

The Philippines, Brazil and Colombia ranked as the deadliest countries for farmers, farm workers, indigenous people and land rights activists.