23.02.2015 - 20:00 [ Ecologist ]

UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda‘s dispossessed

This means that many European financial institutions, through their investments in agribusiness projects, are supporting a significant number of what are in fact land grabs in the global South. Such incidents are widespread and growing: new cases are reported to civil society organisations on a near-weekly basis in countries from Cambodia and Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, Myanmar and Nigeria.