The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The UN pays Bolloré over US$50 million every year for logistics and other services. While Bolloré Group through SOCFIN has been accused of land grabbing and widespread human rights violations for years.
Rural 'vulture' funds have been attracted by rising profits in land where prices rose by 15% last year, and the biggest losers in this game of investment chess are young and active farmers looking for more land.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a law on deregulation of land relations.
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among workers at foreign-owned banana farms in Laos.
Lebih dari 200 orang masyarakat adat dan aktivis melakukan aksi longmarch ke kantor Bupati Sorong Selatan menolak perkebunan kelapa sawit, pencabutan izin perusahaan dan mendesak perlindungan hak-hak Orang Asli Papua. Bupati Sorong Selatan mencabut ijin empat perusahaan kelapa sawit pada Selasa 18 Mei.
CRESUD controla más de 800 mil hectáreas en territorios sudamericanos, particularmente en Bolivia, Argentina, Brasil y Paraguay.
"La situation s'aggrave alors que les populations de districts entiers sont déplacées de force de leurs terres", indique un rapport du Denis Hurley Peace Institute
"Las élites ricas violan los derechos de los pobres al quedarse con sus tierras. El gobierno no hace nada al respecto. Por el contrario, promueve estas actividades"
El Gobierno de Brasil planea eliminar las ordenanzas que protegen a los territorios de los pueblos indígenas no contactados y prohíben la entrada de invasores.
La Sierra Leone a accepté de vendre 100 ha de plage immaculée et de forêt tropicale à la Chine dans le cadre d’un accord de 55 millions de dollars qui verrait un port de pêche industriel construit sur le site.
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.
In Kiryandongo, Uganda, three foreign multinational companies, with support from the Ugandan government, have facilitated violent land grabs leading to the displacement of thousands of families.
En 2016, Feronia avait déjà englouti au moins 14 millions de dollars dans ses projets rizicoles avant de brutalement « mettre fin » à toute sa division « Arable Farming » en 2017, sans aucune explication.
Ariel Ávila, investigador y subdirector de Pares, expuso que el matrimonio Lafaurie-Cabal representa “uno de los gremios que más ha sido cuestionado por relaciones con masacres, desplazamientøs, desaparición forzada y despojo de tierras”.
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
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Socfin's response on Mbonjo case
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