Impact des investissements agricoles italiens dans les biocarburants au Sénégal

Cambodia and Laos are in the grip of a land grabbing crisis, driven by Vietnamese ‘rubber barons’. This report reveals how two of Vietnam’s largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), have leased vast tracts of land for plantations in Laos and Cambodia, with disastrous consequences for local communities and the environment. Close ties to corrupt political and business elites provide them with impunity, deals are cloaked in secrecy and they are bankrolled by international finance such as Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

London (UK) / May 2013 / 10 pages

Les transactions commerciales sur les terres agricoles ne sont pas un phénomène nouveau, mais l’accélération de leur rythme et l’importance de la taille des terres louées ou vendues au cours de ces dernières années revêtent un caractère spécifique. Si ces transactions permettent l’accroissement des investissements et des innovations, elles suscitent une forte opposition de la part des organisations paysannes et présentent des risques de fragilisation des droits d’accès des populations rurales à la terre, et des menaces pour la durabilité environnementale.

Paris / Novembre 2011 / 70 pages

For close to a century, peasants in the Philippines have been organizing to defend their lands from being grabbed by foreign agribusiness corporations. However, this struggle for land and livelihood in rural areas has intensified over the past five years, as a race to establish plantations of “green oases” for agrofuel development and agro-industrial crops for export has been initiated by foreign companies from Japan, South Korea, China and the Arab world.

Manille (Philippines) / août 2011 / 20 pages.

The indigenous peoples of Koto Sepuluh have already lived in their ancestral land long before the existence of the Indonesian Republic. They have their own land laws that governed land tenure, management of agricultural lands, managed hunting, and ways to open the forest. The State has systematically abrogated the indigenous laws of the Tanjung Benuang Village by issuing law on village administration. Through the imposition of this law, the land of the people has been grabbed through the granting of HPH concession to the companies, creating untold misery to the village peoples.

Penang (Malaysia) / July 2012 / 10 pages