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IPES | 16 October 2017 | corporations
Dominant agri-food firms have become too big to feed humanity sustainably, too big to operate on equitable terms with other food system actors, and too big to drive the types of innovation we need.
Bloomberg | 05 October 2017 | land grabbing | Ethiopia, India
Karuturi Global Ltd., an Indian flower grower, demanded compensation from the Ethiopian government for a series of failed land deals as it prepares to exit the Horn of Africa nation.
Cameroon-Info.Net | 29 September 2017 | land grabbing | Cameroon
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Women living in areas bordering SOCAPALM plantations (Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies or Cameroon society of palm plantations) gave a press briefing on Wednesday 27 September 2017 in Yaoundé to condemn the French company’s failure to respect its contractual obligations, sexual assaults by male security personnel, and land grabbing.
MALOA, SILNORF, WRM, Bread for All and GRAIN | 28 September 2017 | land grabbing | Luxembourg, Sierra Leone
Synchronicity Earth | 26 September 2017 | land grabbing | Cameroon
Cameroonian environmental activist Nasako Besingi was arrested on Monday morning (25th September) in Mundemba, southwest Cameroon, at the headquarters of his NGO, SEFE (Struggle to Economize the Future Environment). The premises are reported to have been ransacked and Nasako arrested by a large group of police and soldiers and taken away in the back of a gendarmerie pick-up. We do not know where Nasako is being held and the authorities are yet to give a reason for his arrest.
Civil society organisations | 25 September 2017 | land grabbing | Cameroon, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone
On occasion of September 21st, International day of Struggle against Tree Plantations, women from several countries from West and Central Africa have taken the initiative to release simultaneously the petition we enclose below.
RIAO-RDC, GRAIN and WRM | 25 September 2017 | land grabbing | Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established by the previous owner of the plantations, multinational food company Unilever. Incidents of violent abuse and conflict arising from the company’s oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been a regular occurrence. In 2015, seven children were left orphaned after police killed both indigenous pygmy parents for taking some oil palm fruits from the plantations to feed their children.
Mark Curtis | 14 September 2017 | land grabbing | Belgium, Canada, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom
The central aim of European Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) is to foster growth and reduce poverty. Yet in Africa, evidence is mounting that they have funded ‘forestry’ projects which have caused deforestation, possible land grabs, and undermined communities’ livelihoods.
FIAN et al. | 12 September 2017 | land grabbing | Brazil
During its visits, the delegation observed high levels of agrochemical pollution, diminishing natural resources, land grabbing, as well as significant impact on the health of traditional communities, resulting from increasing soy plantations.
MASIPAG | 08 September 2017 | hybrid rice, GMOs | Philippines
Quezon City – A House Resolution directing an inquiry on the controversial Golden Rice has been filed at the House of Representatives today, as an effort to stem the imminent re-introduction of the genetically modified (GM) crop in the country.
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