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Food insecurity, famine and malnutrition have blighted the agropastoralist communities of the Lower Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia. Researchers and human rights advocates say the drought has only exacerbated fundamental changes to the cultures of these peoples brought on by the construction of a dam and the establishment of sugarcane plantations in the region.
The Maasai have suffered over a century of forced evictions from their ancestral lands in Tanzania in the name of both game hunting and conservation. Has recognition that global biodiversity goals depend on indigenous peoples come too late?
After the Ukrainian authorities opened the land market in the spring of 2020 and at the same time prevented farmers from building up their muscles by curtailing their financial support programs, it became obvious that the state, developing agriculture, would rely on agricultural holdings according to the Latin American version.
The executive director of the American Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal, addressed a letter to the heads of key global financial institutions at the IMF, the World Bank, and the EBRD, in which he declares the risk of Ukraine losing its economic independence due to the...
Forget any rebuilding programme such as the Marshall Plan, by then mainly US commercial interests will have carved up agricultural land
Against the wishes of hundreds of millions of farmers, the bank is backing a model that can push economic dependence, soil depletion and pollution.
Will ballooning wartime debt allow agribusiness to make a feast of Ukrainian agriculture?
Flambée des prix et perturbations sur les chaînes de production : le conflit a eu des répercussions alimentaires immédiates, suscitant un élan international, mais peu de réponses à long terme.
Reportage from where a private company and state-led border building converge to violently evict people from their ancestral land.