“Las invasiones no paran, la deforestación no para y las amenazas no paran”, exclama Iván Flores Rodríguez por teléfono desde la comunidad nativa Santa Clara de Uchunya, en el distrito de Nueva Requena, provincia de Coronel Portillo en Ucayali.

Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands.

Amandla talks to Jeff Wokulira Sebagala of Witness Radio, Uganda, one of the organizations that recently authored the report “land grabs at gunpoint.”

En el INDERT opera una “rosca que blanquea tierras del estado usurpados por no beneficiarios de la reforma agraria” que incluye a jueces, fiscales y funcionarios del ente que entregan tierras a extranjeros.

Nicaragua has ramped up export production to the US amid the pandemic. But this has come at a high cost for Indigenous communities, who are being run off their land to make way for cattle ranches.

The prosecution alleges that the eight land defenders threatened to harm a police officer and workers of one of the companies involved in large-scale land grabs for agricultural plantations in Kiryandongo, Uganda.

Hace tres años, en una consulta popular, este pueblo del Tolima rechazó un proyecto de la empresa sudafricana AngloGold Ashanti que pretendía explotar oro. Pero al mismo tiempo aceptó la entrada del aguacate hass, un monocultivo promovido por esa multinacional que hoy acapara tierras y amenaza el ambiente.

a number of Chinese firms have invested in large-scale crop and livestock production in Zambia and the agronomist would like to see more Chinese investments in agriculture exports.

The Matopiba region is home to the majority of the Cerrado’s remaining vegetation, and, conversely, among the highest deforestation and fire rates in Brazil.

IFC et AATIF financent un joint-venture franco-sénégalais qui s'installe près de Saint Louis pour faire de la production et la transformation des oignons déshydratés pour l'agroindustrie transnationale

On recense plus d’une centaine de conflits opposant des communautés autochtones à des investisseurs en Amérique latine, explique le sociologue Bernard Duterme.

Seventy-nine Kenyans have launched a legal claim in the High Court in London against Camellia Plc (and other UK companies in the Camellia Group) for alleged human rights abuses at its Kenyan plantations.

The $56.5 billion Harvard University Endowment Fund is preparing to sell another chunk of its Australian almond and cotton holdings after putting the Western Rosella Farming portfolio in the NSW Riverina on the market.

El miércoles 8 de octubre hacia las 4:00 p.m. en la ciudad de Cali se conoció de un plan de compra de tierras en los municipios de Valle del Guamuez y Puerto Asís.

Harvard University’s endowment spun off its natural resources team, creating an independent entity that will manage some of the school’s agriculture and food production investments.