The insatiable thirst for carbon credit schemes has left many smallholder farmer communities in Uganda grappling with the life-threatening effects of violent land grabs
In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.
The project to cultivate 60,000 ha is "suspended" until the Malagasy state delivers on the investor's demand for preliminary development work to be done. TANY Collective offers an analysis.
Zambia plans on attracting overseas investment in export agriculture by opening up 100,000 ha and by using a $300 million World Bank loan to improve roads, electricity and dams.
Le projet d'exploitation de 60 000 ha est "suspendu" jusqu'à ce que l'Etat malgache fassent des aménagements exigés par l'investisseur. Analyse du Collectif TANY.
Le Collectif contre l’accaparement des Terres du Walo a fait face à la presse ce samedi pour décrier un « harcèlement » de la part de l’administration locale « avec à sa tête leur maire« .
Nigeria's Kaduna State Government declared its readiness to utilise over 800,000 hectares of virgin land located for agricultural purposes at the 7th Kaduna Investment Summit.
Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty
Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.
Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.
The CEO of the Mano Palm Oil Plantation has been caught on tape instructing the head of his company’s private security to stage a protest against against the residents of the communities where his company operates.
The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a carbon farming fund that seeks to expand its existing 100,000-acre landholding to 500,000 acres.
On September 2nd, security forces looted and burned down houses in the Nigerian village of Agbede – a further chapter in the conflict between local people and the Okomu Oil Palm plantation company, reports Rainforest Rescue
The oil palm plantations of BIDCO, a company partially owned by Wilmar, in Kalangala Island, Uganda, generated devastating impacts. But the company's plans to expand to Buvuma Island are met with organized opposition!
Le projet d’exploitation des 60.000 ha du Bas-Mangoky en suspens. Les investisseurs qui ont manifesté leur intérêt sur ce projet souhaiteraient d’abord « que l’Etat mette en place les facilités » nécessaires à leur implantation sur le site.
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