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Miracle or Mirage? Manufacturing Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/miracle-mirage-manufacturing-hunger-poverty-ethiopia

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As months of protest and civil unrest hurl Ethiopia into a severe political crisis, a new report from the Oakland Institute debunks the myth that the country is the new “African Lion.” Miracle or Mirage? Manufacturing Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia exposes how authoritarian development schemes have perpetuated cycles of poverty, food insecurity, and marginalized the country’s most vulnerable citizens.

#Éthiopie #terres #agro-industrie #eau #souveraineté_alimentaire

Backroom Bullying: The Role of the United States Government in the Herakles Farms’ Land Grab in Cameroon
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/us-bullies-cameroon-herakles

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Backroom Bullying: The Role of the United States Government in the Herakles Farms’ Land Grab in Cameroon, shows how bullying by US government officials may have played a critical role in the granting of nearly 20,000 ha by the Cameroonian government to the US-based firm Herakles Farms in 2013, instead of the cancellation of clearly flawed project.

I Speak without Fear: Where Are Our Loved Ones Who Have Been Abducted, Arrested, and Disappeared? - a report by Anuradha Mittal (Oakland Institute)
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/i-speak-without-fear

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In December 2014, the Oakland Institute carried out research and fieldwork in #Sri_Lanka in order to understand and document the state of land conflicts and displacement amid accusations of land grabs experienced by the Tamils and other minorities at the hands of the Sri Lankan army and the government. While investigating the land grabs, the research team witnessed discrimination, harassment by the police, and horrors of the civil war that continue to torment minority groups, especially the Tamils, even today.

#répression #disparus

The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/unholy-alliance-five-western-donors-shape-pro-corporate-agenda-afr

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The Unholy Alliance, Five Western Donors Shape a Pro-Corporate Agenda for African Agriculture, exposes how a coalition of four donor countries and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is shaping a pro-business environment in the agricultural sector of developing countries, especially in Africa.

#agriculture #Fondation_Gates #agro-industrie #Afrique

With a Little Help from Bill Gates, the World Bank Creates a New Aid Conditionality
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/little-help-bill-gates-world-bank-creates-new-aid-conditionality

An alluring cast of speakers including the First Lady Michelle Obama, Queen Rania of Jordan, John Kerry, and Ban Ki-moon, among others, spoke at last week’s World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC. Bill Gates was the guest star of the Bank’s final live-cast panel discussion, “A New Vision for Financing Development with Bill Gates.”

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During the 1980s, the concept of “aid conditionality” was the arsenal used to implement the World Bank and IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs), which imposed policy reforms as conditions to provide loans to developing countries. The SAPs forced the withdrawal of state intervention in key areas such as agriculture and deregulation of economies, which impoverished millions in developing countries.

Even though the anti-SAP backlash forced the World Bank to terminate the program, the goal of driving market-based, pro-private sector policy reforms in developing countries was not abandoned. While officially withdrawing the SAPs in 2002, the Bank launched a new project: the Doing Business index, which ranks countries according to “the ease of doing business.” As documented in a series of reports produced by the Oakland Institute, the Doing Business, deceitfully labeled “knowledge project,” is used to influence policy-making and reduce or do away with developing countries’ economic, social, and environmental standards.

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The Gates Foundation is among the five international donors bankrolling the EBA, which it deems a powerful tool to inform policymakers of the nature and extent of regulations they need to put in place to attract investments.1 Besides the EBA, the foundation is engaged in other agriculture-related policy advocacy, especially in Africa. The largely Gates-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), for instance, advised and lobbied the governments of Ghana, Tanzania, and Malawi, among others, to adopt pro-business seed and land policy reforms.2 And it continues to finance the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), an institution that coordinates research and advocacy work on new technologies in agriculture, including genetically modified crops.

#aide #développement #Fondation_Gates #agriculture

Est-il encore permis d’informer sur les activités du groupe Bolloré ?
►http://www.bastamag.net/Est-il-encore-permis-d-informer-sur-les-activites-du-groupe-Bollore

L’audience du procès en diffamation que le groupe Bolloré intente à Bastamag se déroulera le jeudi 11 février, à la 17ème chambre du Tribunal de grande instance de Paris, à partir de 13h. L’audience sera publique.

Le groupe Bolloré estime diffamatoire pas moins de huit paragraphes – ainsi que le titre et le surtitre – d’un article de synthèse publié par Bastamag en octobre 2012 et consacré à la question de l’accaparement des terres, ces appropriations de terres à grande échelle par des fonds d’investissements ou des multinationales, principalement en Afrique et en Asie.

S’appuyant sur des rapports des Nations unies et d’organisations internationales, cet article dressait un état des lieux du mouvement d’accaparement de terres en Afrique, en Amérique latine et en Asie, et des grandes entreprises françaises qui y sont impliquées. L’article mentionne ainsi les activités du groupe Bolloré, via une holding luxembourgeoise, la Socfin, dans lequel le groupe possède de fortes participations. La Socfin possède de multiples filiales qui gèrent des plantations d’hévéas et d’huile de palme en Afrique et en Asie.

>>>>> L’article en question dans le procès pour diffamation : "Bolloré, Crédit agricole, Louis Dreyfus : ces groupes français, champions de l’accaparement de terres", par Nadia Djabali (2012)
►http://www.bastamag.net/Bollore-Credit-agricole-Louis

Alors que 868 millions de personnes souffrent de sous-alimentation, selon l’Onu, l’accaparement de terres agricoles par des multinationales de l’agrobusiness ou des fonds spéculatifs se poursuit. L’équivalent de trois fois l’Allemagne a ainsi été extorqué aux paysans africains, sud-américains ou asiatiques. Les plantations destinées à l’industrie remplacent l’agriculture locale. Plusieurs grandes entreprises françaises participent à cet accaparement, avec la bénédiction des institutions financières.

Egalement sur le site Bastamag :

>>>> Liberté de la presse : Bolloré porte de nouveau plainte contre Basta ! 2015
►http://www.bastamag.net/Liberte-de-la-presse-Bollore-porte-de-nouveau-plainte-contre-Bastamag

>>>> Basta ! et Rue 89 mis en examen suite à une plainte du groupe Bolloré. 2013
▻http://www.bastamag.net/Basta-et-Rue-89-mis-en-examen

>>>> Deux autres journalistes de Basta ! mis en examen suite à une plainte du groupe Bolloré
▻http://www.bastamag.net/Deux-autres-journalistes-de-Basta

>>>> Voir aussi les articles au sujet de Bolloré par l’association Survie
▻http://survie.org/mot/bollore

Sierra Leone : Emprisonnement de Shiaka Sama, procès de journalistes en France, les voix critiques contre Bolloré réduites au silence . FIDH Mouvement mondial des droits humains
▻https://www.fidh.org/fr/themes/mondialisation-droits-humains/sierra-leone-emprisonnement-de-shiaka-sama-proces-de-journalistes-en

A la veille d’un nouveau procès intenté par Bolloré contre des journalistes de médias français, des organisations dénoncent l’emprisonnement le 5 février de 6 leaders des communautés locales affectées par les investissements de la SAC, une filiale de Socfin, société liée au groupe Bolloré.

Comprendre les investissements fonciers en Afrique - Le projet SOCFIN en Sierra Leone - 2012 Oakland Institute

▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/rapportOISocfinAvril2012enfrancais.pdf

En 2011, Socfin Agricultural Company Sierra Leone Ltd. (Socfin SL) a pris le contrôle de 6.500 hectares (ha) de terres agricoles pour établir des plantations de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas dans la chefferie de Malen, district de Pujehun, au sud de la Sierra Leone. L’entreprise cherche maintenant à acquérir 5.000 ha supplémentaires dans la région de Malen ou des chefferies voisines.

Promettant création d’emplois, compensation pour les exploitations agricoles perdues et la construction d’infrastructures, l’investissement initial, estimé à 100 millions de dollars, a bénéficié d’un soutien au plus haut niveau du gouvernement Sierra Léonais.

Le bail de 50 ans a été signé par le Ministre de l’Agriculture, des Forêts et de la Sécurité Alimentaire, le Dr Sam Sesay, lui-même.Malgré ce soutien politique, le projet de Socfin SL se heurte à une forte résistance de la population locale. En octobre 2011, 40 manifestants ont été arrêtés, suite aux tensions entre les villageois et l’entreprise. Les manifestants protestaient contre le projet d’investissement, le manque de transparence de la société, l’absence de consultation des populations locales, et le manque d’information sur les perspectives de réinstallation. Ils se plaignaient également des faibles rémunérations, de la corruption d’élites locales, et de la pression exercée sur les propriétaires de terres et les chefs de villages pour la signature des accords.

Socfin SL, est une filiale de Socfin (Société Financière des Caoutchoucs), une société holding, qui opère dans divers secteurs, dont les plantations, l’agroalimentaire, l’immobilier et la finance. Le principal actionnaire est la société Bolloré Investissement SA (Groupe Bolloré), détenue par l’homme d’affaires français Vincent Bolloré.

L’empire Bolloré s’est développé de façon spectaculaire au cours des deux dernières décennies. En achetant des anciennes entreprises coloniales, et profitant de la vague de privatisations issue des “ajustements structurels” imposés par le Fonds Monétaire International, Bolloré est devenu un acteur clé dans la structure économique et la vie politique de nombreux pays africains.

Le Groupe est désormais présent dans 92 pays dans le monde, dont 43 en Afrique. Il contrôle des plantations mais est aussi présent dans d’autres secteurs, comme la logistique, la manutention, les infrastructures de transport, la production de pétrole et surtout les ports africains (13 en 2012). L’emprise de Bolloré sur le continent atteint aujourd’hui de nouvelles dimensions avec l’accroissement des investissements dansles plantations d’huile de palme et d’hévéas.

Les griefs des agriculteurs de Sierra Leone vis-à-vis des plantations de Socfin font écho à ceux de communautés rurales de plusieurs pays du Sud concernant d’autres filiales de Socfin. Des critiques similaires sont ainsi apparues ces dernières années au Libéria, au Cameroun et au Cambodge.
Des agriculteurs et petits propriétaires sont poursuivis en Sierra Leone pour leur opposition à Socfin. Leur lutte est bien celle de David contre Goliath, Socfin étant aux mains de puissantes élites économiques et financières internationales, Vincent Bolloré et ses associés.

>>>> Affaires, médias et humanitaire : Les guerres africaines de Vincent Bolloré, par Thomas Deltombe (2009)
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2009/04/DELTOMBE/16970

>>>> Port, rail, plantations : le triste bilan de Bolloré au Cameroun par Thomas Deltombe (2009)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2009/04/DELTOMBE/17037

>>>> Bolloré : monopoles services compris. Tentacules africaines (2000) - Survie
▻http://survie.org/francafrique/diplomatie-business-et-dictatures/article/bollore-monopoles-services-compris-170

Vincent Bolloré contre Basta ! : à bas la presse libre, vive les paradis fiscaux - Attac
▻https://attac.org/l/5m1

Ce jeudi 11 février s’ouvre le procès en diffamation contre le site d’info indépendant Bastamag sur plainte de Vincent Bolloré. Après avoir normalisé Canal +, M. Bolloré veut étouffer le scandale… Bolloré en faisant taire Basta !, un site d’info qui dérange. Il devrait plutôt se méfier de la publicité : la société Socfin, épinglée par Basta ! au vu des enquêtes de terrain menées par plusieurs ONG sur l’accaparement de terres en Afrique, est aussi lourdement impliquée dans deux paradis fiscaux particulièrement nocifs, Liechtenstein et Luxembourg

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#Vincent_Bolloré #Socfin #Bastamag #Nadia_Djabali #attac #fidh #Oakland_Institute #Thomas_Deltombe #procès #paradis_fiscaux #Sierra-Leone #Afrique #Multinationales #Information #survie.org

Agroecology Case Studies
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/agroecology-case-studies

The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of the farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.

#agroécologie #Afrique

My Home My Land
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/my-home-my-land

My Home, My Land is a graphic representation of much of the Oakland Institute’s work on land grabs. Illustrated by the Institute’s Intern Scholar, Abner Hauge, this publication dismantles the many myths promoted by so-called donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.

Over the past seven years, the Oakland Institute has exposed the actual impact of the land grabs on indigenous, pastoralist, and smallholder farming families around the world. The powerful illustrations of My Home, My Land remind us of the beauty and complexity of the world’s ecosystems and indigenous cultures, and call upon us to take action now to stop exploitative land grabs internationally.

Ma terre, ma vie
▻http://issuu.com/oaklandinstitute/docs/myhomemyland_french?e=16633962/12612290
#terres #agro-industrie #bd

We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/we-say-land-not-yours-breaking-silence-against-forced-displacement

Over the past six years, the Oakland Institute has been at the forefront of exposing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of foreign land grabs in Ethiopia. This work has been based on extensive fieldwork and research on human rights abuses against and forced evictions of indigenous populations in the Lower Omo and Gambella regions; detailed briefs on the impacts of specific land development projects, such as the Saudi Star Rice Farm and the Malaysian Koka plantation in Lower Omo;studies on the intersection between forced evictions and foreign aid by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for International Development (DfID) and the World Bank; and more. These reports have led to numerous media articles, galvanizing public attention towards these issues, and legislative “wins” in the US, including specific language in the 2014 and 2015 Appropriations Bill that ensures US development funds to Ethiopia are not used to support activities that directly or indirectly involve forced evictions in Gambella and lower Omo.

However, human rights abuses resulting from a faulty development strategy adopted by the Ethiopian government with support of the donor countries continue despite these efforts.

▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/Breaking%20the%20Silence.pdf

#Éthiopie #terres #développement #droits_humains #peuples_autochtones

Engineering ethnic conflict: The toll of Ethiopia’s plantation development on the Suri people
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/24195-engineering-ethnic-conflict-the-toll-of-ethiopia-s-plantation-de

Today, the Oakland Institute (OI), in collaboration with the Anywaa Survival Organisation (ASO), released Engineering Ethnic Conflict: The Toll of Ethiopia’s Plantation Development on the Suri People, the latest in its series of comprehensive investigative reports about land grabs and forced evictions in Ethiopia. The report uncovers the truth behind a reported massacre of 30 to 50 Suri people in May 2012 near the 30,000-hectare Malaysian-owned Koka plantation. Based on extensive fieldwork, Engineering Ethnic Conflict reveals the destabilizing effects of foreign investment in Southwestern Ethiopia and examines the role of international aid programs in supporting forced evictions in the country.

▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/engineering-ethnic-conflict
#Ethiopie #terres #massacre #paysannerie #pastoralisme #agrobusiness

Walking on the West Side: the World Bank and the IMF in the Ukraine Conflict | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/walking-west-side-world-bank-and-imf-ukraine-conflict

International financing has played a significant—although not always reported—role in the current conflict in Ukraine. In late 2013, conflict between pro-European Union (EU) and pro-Russian Ukrainians escalated to violent levels, leading to the departure of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 and prompting the greatest East-West confrontation since the Cold War.

A major factor in the crisis that led to deadly protests and eventually President Yanukovych’s removal from office was his rejection of an EU Association agreement that would have further opened trade and integrated Ukraine with the EU. The agreement was tied to a $17 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Instead of the EU and IMF deal, Yanukovych choose a Russian aid package worth $15 billion plus a 33% discount on Russian natural gas. This deal has since gone off the table with the pro-EU interim government accepting the new multimillion dollar IMF package in May 2014.

We Harvest—You Profit: African Land Ltd’s Land Deal in Sierra Leone | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/we-harvest-you-profit

From rising food prices to growing demand for biofuel, the current obsession for agricultural land borders on speculative mania as private companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, and sovereign wealth funds join the land rush looking for lucrative deals in the developing world. An estimated 500 million acres, an area about ten times the size of Britain, has been bought or leased in the developing world in the last decade. The social, economic, and environmental impacts of this trend have been extensively researched and made public by the Oakland Institute.

et aussi
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/down-on-the-farm
#terres #finance

World Bank Accused of Destroying Traditional Farming to Support Corporate Land Grabs | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/press-release-world-bank-accused-destroying-traditional-farming-su
OaklandInstitute lance une campagne avec plusieurs partenaires pour dénoncer les processus mis en place par la #Banque_mondiale en matière d’#agriculture qui encouragent les #accaparements de #terres dépouillent les petits agriculteurs. Je n’ai pas encore eu le temps de regarder tout ça de près.

Today, the Oakland Institute and /The Rules, along with other NGOs, farmer and consumer organizations from around the world launch a campaign, Our Land Our Business, to hold the World Bank accountable for its role in the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world’s poorest people—farmers, pastoralists, and indigenous communities, many of whom are essential food producers for the entire planet.

“The World Bank is facilitating land grabs and sowing poverty by putting the interests of foreign investors before those of locals,” said Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute.

“Smallholder farmers and herders are currently feeding 80 percent of the developing world. Casting them aside in favor of industrial farming corporations from the West betrays the World Bank’s reckless and short term approach to development,” said Alnoor Ladha, Executive Director of /The Rules.

The Bank’s “Doing Business” rankings, which score countries according to how Washington officials perceive the “ease of doing business” there, have caused many developing-country leaders to deregulate their economies in hopes of attracting foreign investment. But what the World Bank considers beneficial for foreign business is very often the exact opposite for existing farmers and herders.

In the agricultural sector, the rankings encourage governments to commoditize their land—and to sell or lease it to foreign investors, regardless of environmental or social impact. Smallholder farmers, pastoralists, and indigenous people are casualties of this approach, as governments and foreign corporations work hand-in-hand to dispossess them of their land—and gain World Bank approval in the process.

The results have already been devastating.

Des paysans et éleveurs sénégalais exigent que la multinationale Senhuile SA quitte leurs terres
▻http://www.grain.org/fr/article/entries/4900-des-paysans-et-eleveurs-senegalais-exigent-que-la-multinationale-senhuil

Des paysans et des éleveurs de la région Nord-ouest du #Sénégal sont actuellement en Europe pour exiger la fin d’une transaction foncière qui menace les vies et les moyens de subsistance de plus de 9000 personnes. Senhuile SA, un consortium international opaque, s’est vu attribuer 20 000 hectares de terre dans la réserve de Ndiaël, utilisée depuis des décennies par la population des 40 villages de la zone. Les habitants demandent la fin de ce projet qui les prive de leur accès aux pâturages, à l’eau, à la nourriture et au bois de chauffage, les contraignant au final à quitter leurs terres.

Senhuile SA est un consortium contrôlé par Tampieri Financial Group, des investisseurs sénégalais et Agro Bioéthanol International, une société écran enregistrée à New York. Les éleveurs, en association avec des représentants du Conseil National de Concertation et Coopération des Ruraux (CNCR) et les ONG sénégalaises ENDA Pronat et ActionAid sont en Europe à partir d’aujourd’hui et jusqu’au 6 mars afin de mobiliser les citoyens et demander à Tampieri, actionnaire majoritaire de Senhuile, de mettre fin au projet. Le projet était initialement situé dans une autre région, Fanaye, où la violente opposition locale a causé la mort de deux villageois et fait des dizaines de blessés en 2011.

Un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui par Oakland Institute expose les nombreux défauts du projet, tels que le manque de consultation des communautés locales, l’absence de consentement, la nature opaque des opérations de Senhuile, ou encore l’impact catastrophique du projet sur les moyens de subsistance des populations.

L’accès au rapport d’Oakland Institute en anglais et en français
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/land-deals-africa-senegal

Je profite de l’occasion pour saluer le travail magnifique d’OI dont les rapports et analyses sur les #accaparements de #terres sont particulièrement très bien ficelés.

US Congress Takes a Historic Stance Against Land Grabs-Related Forced Evictions in Ethiopia | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/press-release-us-congress-takes-historic-stance-against-land-grabs

In a historic move, the US Congress has taken a stance on land grabs-related human rights abuses in Ethiopia. The 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Bill contains provisions that ensure that US development funds are not used to support forced evictions in Ethiopia.

The bill prevents US assistance from being used to support activities that directly or indirectly involve forced displacement in the Lower Omo and Gambella regions. It further requires US assistance in these areas be used to support local community initiatives aimed at improving livelihoods and be subject to prior consultation with affected populations. The bill goes further and even instructs the directors of international financial institutions to oppose financing for any activities that directly or indirectly involve forced evictions in Ethiopia.

With this bill, USAID, the State Department, as well as the World Bank, will have to reconsider the terms and modalities of the support they provide to the Ethiopian government. According to Frederic Mousseau, Oakland Institute’s Policy Director, “This is a light of hope for the millions of indigenous people in Ethiopia who have sought international support from the international community to recognize their very destruction as communities and people.”

#terres #Ethiopie #évictions

Norwegian Oil Money in Dirty Business | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/norwegian-oil-money-dirty-business

On October 14, 2013, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced its decision to exclude two Malaysian logging companies, WTK Holdings Berhad and Ta Ann Holdings Berhad, from its Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) portfolio. Its decision, based on the recommendation made by the Council on Ethics in June and December, 2012 (see here also), has been hailed internationally, given the severe environmental damage caused by the two companies on the island of Borneo, Malaysia.
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But is the Norwegian GPFG really as responsible as it is believed to be? Is it safeguarding the values of the Norwegian people?
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What also remains unknown to many is that the GPFG owns equities in a number of companies that have been heavily criticized for unethical and environmentally unsound practices, one of them being Monsanto, where it owns $385 million worth of equities. Monsanto is internationally opposed for being at the forefront in the development and promotion of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and for its notorious practice of suing hundreds of small family farmers in the US whose fields have been contaminated by Monsanto seeds.
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Furthermore, the GPFG invests in 90 of the 100 largest oil companies in the world, and 68 of the 100 largest coal companies. This contradicts the Norwegian government’s stated goal of fighting climate change. One such investment includes Royal Dutch Shell, a company harshly criticized by the UN for causing severe damage to the environment and the people of the Niger delta over the last 50 years.

#Norvège #éthique_en_toc #énergie signalé par @fil

SNAP: An Investment in Our Children | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/snap-investment-our-children

As families across the United States sit down for the Thanksgiving feast, many others will struggle to afford even basic food on this holiday. For a lot of Americans, hunger is a constant concern. Food insecurity, and malnutrition and hunger with it, has grown dramatically in recent years. In 2012, one out of every six, or 49 million, Americans was food insecure. [1] The magnitude of food insecurity renders the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) more important than ever. Given SNAP’s significance, the $40 billion cut to the program proposed by House Republicans will only increase the number of vulnerable Americans.

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Press Release: Papua New Guinea Losing Independence: Investigation Blames the Modern Land Grab | oaklandinstitute.org
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/press-release-papua-new-guinea-losing-independence

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film, On Our Land, released today by the Oakland Institute and the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG). In one of the swiftest and largest land grabs in recent history, close to a third of the country has now been appropriated by foreign companies. Thinly veiled illegal logging operations are destroying the world’s third-largest rainforest and taking away land and heritage from the people of PNG.

On Our Land reveals how the current devastating land grab is happening with the de facto approval of PNG’s government as well as the failure of the country’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, to act on a government-sponsored inquiry, which revealed a shocking trend of corruption and mismanagement in recent land deals. The tabled report on Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs), the scheme used to free up customary land for so-called productive use, showed that the program had, in the prime minister’s own words, “failed miserably.”

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoZmq1lYdw

#Papua_New_Guinea losing independence
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/22826-papua-new-guinea-losing-independence

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film, On Our Land, released today by the Oakland Institute and the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG). In one of the swiftest and largest land grabs in recent history, close to a third of the country has now been appropriated by foreign companies. Thinly veiled illegal logging operations are destroying the world’s third-largest rainforest and taking away land and heritage from the people of PNG.

On Our Land reveals how the current devastating land grab is happening with the de facto approval of PNG’s government as well as the failure of the country’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, to act on a government-sponsored inquiry that revealed a shocking trend of corruption and mismanagement in recent land deals. The tabled report on Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs), the scheme used to free up customary land for so-called productive use, showed that the program had, in the prime minister’s own words, “failed miserably.”

On Our Land
▻http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/on-our-land-film-press-kit

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Herakles Farms peut poursuivre ses opérations de déforestation |
▻http://forets.greenpeace.fr/herakles-farms-peut-poursuivre-ses-operations-de-deforestation

Au Cameroun, la joie des communautés se transforme en déception après la levée de l’ordonnance de suspension d’Herakles Farms. Les rebondissements dans le dossier Herakles Farms au Cameroun se succèdent.

#deforestation #Cameroun