Sixty-three percent of disputes related to private sector land and natural resource investments in Africa began when communities were forced to leave their lands,...
The Colombian Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of an indigenous peoples’ centuries-old fight for their territory, granting the petition for the protection of...
A recent fact-finding mission by regional human rights groups in the south-western island of Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines, has revealed...
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), civil society groups and communities impacted by oil palm companies in Cross River State have...
As global agricultural resources shrink or shift, countries are crossing borders to obtain new farmlands
Since 2000, more than 36 million hectares – an area about...
The increasing trend of international land grabbing – when governments and private firms invest in or purchase large tracts of land in other countries...
Endangered great ape species are having their rainforest habitat destroyed and threatened by the expansion of agribusiness projects in central Africa, according to new...
