Experts warn that providing companies with an option to dispute the revocation opens up room for corruption, and gives companies time to speed up the exploitation of the land while the revocations remain non-binding.
Solange Ngo Bakoumé est porte-parole pour dénoncer l’accaparement des terres, la pollution environnementale des agro-industries de l’hévéa et de l’huile de palme auprès des campements Bagyeli au Cameroun
PHC wishes to assure those local communities with whom it is engaged that it will continue all mediation processes with local communities commenced prior to the transaction.
TLG manages 20,000 hectares of farmland in Uruguay producing beef, soybeans, rice, and timber on behalf of European pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.
US-based Washington State Investment Board has committed another $A350 million to Queensland-based farm investor Laguna Bay Pastoral Company.
- Queensland Country Life
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02 Mar 2022
An area nearly the size of Belgium will be cleared in Indonesia’s Papua province to grow food crops under a government program. A new analysis shows that this conversion alone could result in the release of 616 million metric tons of greenhouse gases — a third of what Indonesia as a whole currently emits in a year.
The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.
Lors de sa dernière réunion du 10 novembre, les experts du Comité ont échangé sur les évolutions législatives récentes à Madagascar et fait part de leurs préoccupations par rapport à l’adoption probable de la loi 2021-06.
- Foncier & développement
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02 Mar 2022
Dans "Hold-up sur la terre", la journaliste et auteure, Lucile Leclair, parle d'une pratique silencieuse, mais puissante, qui transforme radicalement l’agriculture française : l’accaparement des terres.
Hoodlums set ablaze the farmland in Howe, a Gwer local government area in Benue state, Nigeria over probable land indemnity disputes with the natives regarding lands originally owned by the state government.
The collaboration with Sarh Attaqnia Co and CMEC aims to unlock untapped land resources of Pakistan by bringing fallow lands under cultivation through the Corporate Agriculture Farming initiative.
- Arab News
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28 February 2022
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
- Collective statement
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28 February 2022
Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.
- Collective statement
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28 February 2022
El desastre ambiental que provocan los incendios es inseparable de las explotaciones económicas que se llevan a cabo en esa provincia. Concentración de tierras y el peso de los extranjeros. Las movidas de Sigman, Soros, Grupo Clarín y la Universidad de Harvard.
- Sudestada
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26 February 2022
DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 thousand hectares of maize fields, a staple food of the Congolese people.
- Africa News
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26 February 2022