A new video from Environmental Investigation Agency shows devastating effects of the growing palm oil sector on the lands and rights of farmers and indigenous peoples in Colombia.
While new interest in protecting farmland in Saskatchewan has been sparked, farmers say more study is needed to understand who owns what farmland and what the various rules are governing ownership in the provinces.
“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board has bought Macquarie Group's owned and operated almond properties in the Sunraysia district of north-west Victoria for more than $115 million.
A large-scale agriculture project in Indonesia's southern Papua province has been relaunched, targeting 1.2 million hectares of indigenous land to develop rice farms over the next three years.
Chinese company's takeover of Australian farmland and firms draws mixed reaction from Australia ministers.
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Pétition de Sauvons la forêt « Bolloré a pris nos terres. Et maintenant notre liberté. » Des paysans d’Afrique et d’Asie accusent la holding luxembourgeoise Socfin de s’être accaparée leurs terres pour ses cultures d’huile de palme. Ils ont lancé une série de blocages dans les plantations pour que l’actionnaire principal Bolloré s’emploie à faire respecter leurs droits et restituer leurs terres. Soutenons leur action !
Le Forum national pour la démocratie et l’unité dénonce des attributions foncières irrégulières et le bradage des terres à vocation agricole au niveau de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal
Um projeto de desenvolvimento da agricultura em Moçambique, financiado pelos governos do Brasil e do Japão, levou à expulsão de centenas de pequenos agricultores de suas terras para dar espaço a grandes empreendimentos
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