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06/06/2026

🔥 Les communautés qui sont impactées par les plantations Socfin/Bolloré en Afrique et Asie vous invite à un webinaire en marge de l'AG du groupe Socfin
🕑️ 10 juin à 10:00 GMT (12h Europe)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88489771937?pwd=oa7972NTewv0mRp0IhY9ELnvbDr4X8.1

Synaparcam Réseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable On est ensemble JVE-Côte d'Ivoire Jve-Cameroun Muyissi environnement La Via Campesina Survie-France

05/06/2026

❌️ US lobby groups are pressuring the Trump administration to require African states to loosen their GMO regulations if they want to continue receiving AGOA trade benefits

U.S. agricultural industry groups are urging Washington to use the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) as leverage to pressure African governments into

05/06/2026

"Il y a des scandales qui éclatent dans le vacarme. Et puis il y a ceux qui avancent à pas feutrés, derrière des signatures administratives, des assemblées générales discrètes et des documents techniques presque illisibles pour le citoyen ordinaire. L’affaire des Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) appartient désormais à cette seconde catégorie : celle des dossiers où le droit des sociétés croise les profondeurs troubles du pouvoir, du foncier et de la souveraineté économique."
🧐 Lire la suite sur https://farmlandgrab.org/33515 (via Kilalopresse)

04/06/2026

On the sidelines of Socfin's Annual General Meeting, communities from Africa and Asia are organizing a webinar to speak about their demand for social justice and the return of their land from Socfin/Bollore
📢Join them on Wed, June 10, 10:00 AM GMT https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88489771937?pwd=oa7972NTewv0mRp0IhY9ELnvbDr4X8.1

La Via Campesina APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development A Growing Culture Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity Network People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty - Global

04/06/2026

Communities fighting industrial plantations in Africa are in deep solidarity with the community of Apouh A Ngog in Cameroun. The villagers will be in court this week to defend their customary rights to their land occupied by Socapalm (Socfin/Bolloré).
🔷 In French: https://farmlandgrab.org/33514
Réseau des Acteurs du Développement Durable Synaparcam JVE-Côte d'Ivoire Muyissi environnement Women's Network Against Rural Plantations Injustice On est ensemble Green Development Advocates Advocates for Community alternatives CCFD-Terre Solidaire Les soulèvements de la terre World Rainforest Movement FIAN Belgium Transnational Palm Oil Labour Solidarity Network សមាគមជនជាតិដើមភាគតិចព្នង The Bunong Indigenous People Association HEKS - Hilfswerk der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche Schweiz

03/06/2026

Farmers around the world have always repaired their own machines and tools. In recent times, this became restricted by companies abusing intellectual property laws, forcing farmers to fight for the “right to repair”. Now enter the digital era. Repairing agricultural drones and connected tractors requires access to their source code, which is strictly protected by intellectual property rights and new digital trade agreements.

In the US, farmers lose US$3 billion a year to tractor downtime and pay US$1.2 billion more in excess repair costs because of these restrictions. But a growing farmers’ movement is also claiming the right to repair machinery worldwide. The agricultural machinery corporation John Deere had to reach a US$99 million settlement agreement in a class action lawsuit filed in the US against it for restricting customers’ capacity to repair their equipment. In Australia, farmers’ pressure is pushing the government to include agricultural machinery in the right to repair rules. Canada’s National Farmers Union / L'Union nationale des fermiers is actively campaigning on this and in France mutual help movements like L'Atelier Paysan spearhead this struggle.

https://pirg.org/resources/john-deere-and-right-to-repair-over-the-years/
https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/andrew-leigh-2025/media-releases/keeping-machinery-moving-when-it-matters-most-right
https://grain.org/e/7380

How John Deere has responded to farmers campaigning for Right to Repair - better access to the resources they need to fix modern tractors

01/06/2026

New report by ETC Group deep dive into risky experiments farming the oceans for carbon market profit by UK startup company, Seafields in the Carribean waters
https://etcgroup.org/content/seafields-faulty-promises-caribbean

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Tue, 2026-04-28 06:59 Farming the Oceans for Carbon Market Profit Our oceans are not a testing ground for profit-driven experiments or carbon-market gambling!A UK startup called Seafields has been experimenting with sinking seaweed in the deep ocean, outlining plans to pu...

29/05/2026

Les semences appartiennent aux paysans et paysannes et l'Etat doit revoir ses dispositifs pour respecter ce droit et ce devoir, martèle Doudou Diop au Sénégal ✊️

Paysan et acteur engagé du monde agricole, Doudou Diop plaide pour la reconnaissance officielle des semences paysannes au Sénégal. Interviewé par SenePlus TV...

29/05/2026

The price of chemical fertilisers is set to rise by 30% this year due to the war-driven closure of the Strait of Hormuz. While this will make food more expensive, fertiliser companies like Yara are already reporting a growth in earnings of 40% in the first quarter of 2026.

A report by Oxford Economic shows that the most significant impact will be on rice, maize and wheat, which are particularly dependent on urea fertilisers. The regions most affected will be Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Instead of continuing to encourage the use of chemical fertilisers through state subsidies, urgent action is needed to allow farmers to transition to agroecological farming, which does not rely on such inputs.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2645092/business-economy
https://www.reuters.com/business/fertiliser-maker-yara-reports-quarterly-profit-above-expectations-2026-04-24/
https://grain.org/e/7382

RIYADH: Global fertilizer prices are projected to rise more than 30 percent in 2026 from 2025 levels, with urea prices expected to climb even faster as conflict-related shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz tighten global supply. According to a report by Oxford Economics, prolonged const...

28/05/2026

A new documentary about Indigenous land grabbing and alleged human rights abuses in Papua for large-scale food estates have sparks controversies and crackdowns by the authorities https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/27/indonesian-authorities-crack-down-on-controversial-papua-documentary
(See the full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpdrWgDRVf8)

JUBI PUSAKA Greenpeace Indonesia

Indonesian authorities have shut down several screenings of a new documentary about alleged human rights abuses in Papua