L’Initiative pour un devoir de vigilance constate une fois de plus que l’autorégulation par les entreprises ne fonctionne pas, et réitère son appel au gouvernement luxembourgeois à adopter une loi sur le devoir de vigilance afin de garantir que les entreprises domiciliées au Luxembourg respectent les droits humains et l’environnement tout au long de la chaîne de valeur.

The agribusiness company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), pledged to World Bank in 2015 to return land within its rubber concessions to local communities. But as residents have sheltered at home due to COVID-19, the company has cleared much of the land.

Tribune collective préparée par plus de 40 organisations à la veille de l'AG es groupes Socfin et Bolloré sur la situation autour de plusieurs plantations de palmier et d'hévéa apparentenant au group Socfin

On the eve of their shareholder meetings, more than 40 organisations sign a collective statement about the situation in numerous rubber and oil palm plantations run by the Socfin group, with the financial participation of the Bolloré group

The debt-ridden oil palm plantations company operating in the DR Congo announces that it is pursuing a restructuring plan that includes a sales process and potential liquidation.

Un projet de loi-cadre sur les terrains dit « à statuts spécifiques » est actuellement en cours de finalisation par le Comité de Révision des Textes sur le Foncier à Madagascar.

La organización ambientalista difundió más de 300 nombres de grandes empresarios y compañías que deforestaron en el país durante los últimos 30 años, en los cuales se perdieron casi 8 millones de hectáreas de bosques nativos.

BrasilAgro, which recently merged with farmland investor Agrifirma, continues to aggressively implement its business model that focuses on the acquisition and transformation of Cerrado savanna into farmland.

In response to resistance from people’s movements, Sri Lanka has pulled out of MCC agreement, which would have opened the door for commercial agriculture and large scale acquisition of Sri Lankan lands for foreign individuals and corporations.

While conditionalities accompanying Western foreign assistance are common practice, the way Ukraine has been forced to put its land for sale has no precedent in modern history.

La société guinéenne du palmier à huile et de l’hévéa (SOGUIPAH) est sérieusement affectée par les effets de la pandémie de coronavirus, vu qu’elle a du mal à écouler sa production de caoutchouc et d’huile de palme.

A Chinese sugar company with a large long-term land concession in Cambodia came under fire from NGOs Tuesday for leasing parts of the concession to local villagers, collecting rent instead of engaging in the activities stipulated in its contract with the Cambodian government.

ECVC junto a URDN, Bankwatch y Eco Action exigen que el Gobierno de Ucrania derogue esta ley y que garantice que cualquier proceso futuro esté sujeto a un debate justo, abierto y democrático, en el que se consulten las voces de los pequeños agricultorxs y de la sociedad civil.

In 2013, Missouri’s legislature pushed through a law altering a previous ban on foreign ownership of agricultural property in the state to facilitate the sale of Smithfield Foods to Hong Kong-based Shuanghui International.

High Court in Lusaka rules that the conversion of village lands in Muchinda chiefdom for a large-scale agribusiness project was illegal and violated the community’s rights, but stops short of cancelling the company's title.