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Biofuels are back, and so are their impacts: land grabbing, rights violations and climate breakdown. As Asian governments ramp up production, Trump uses tariff threats to push them to import US biofuels. Who profits, and who pays the price? grain.org/e/7426

An Indian 🇮🇳 investor is getting 700,000 hectares of farmland in Tanzania 🇹🇿 to raise cattle, produce edible oil and grow vegetables for export. Yet the country is in the midst of a vast & incomplete land reform process. farmlandgrab.org/33772 @plaasuwc.bsky.social @oaklandinstitute.org

The right of rural communities to seeds is facing a wave of global attacks through new regulations, yet the formalisation of farmers’ seed systems is clearly not the solution. New collective analysis: grain.org/e/7427

L’indien BL Agro va louer 700 000 hectares de terres agricoles en Tanzanie – où une importante réforme foncière reste inachevée – pour produire des huiles végétales, des bovins et des légumes pour l'exportation... 🧐 farmlandgrab.org/33771

Our food system is trapped in a #NitrogenNightmare 🏭 ⚠️ We’ve long been told chemical nitrogen fertilizers feed the world. The truth? A growing environmental & health crisis driven by fossil fuels and corporate power. Thread 🧵👇 1/5

Soil fertility can be degraded over time by chemical fertilisers, forcing farmers to use more fertiliser to maintain productivity. They also face soaring prices, while the Top 10 producers generate billion-dollar sales. The fertiliser cartel holds the global food system hostage. #NitrogenNightmare

Industrial poultry giants CP (the Cargill of Thailand, via an Indonesian subsidiary) and Brazil are both looking to set up operations in Senegal, threatening 60,000 small producers there www.ecofinagency.com/news-agricul...

In the first two weeks of October, the UN recorded 160 attacks by Israeli settlers linked to the olive harvest in Palestine. Since 2023, 90% of the olive trees in Gaza and 286,000 trees in the West Bank were destroyed. This is another tool to displace Palestinian farmers news.un.org/en/story/202...

Following a double track policy, China is strengthening domestic seed industry to ensure local autonomy - and expanding rapidly into global markets, dubbing seeds the “microchips of agriculture”. www.welthungerhilfe.org/welternaehru...

Oil palm and rubber companies have taken control of millions of hectares of land from farmers in Asia, Africa and Latin America through contract farming. In this powerful new video from WRM, communities explain how this hurts them and how they fight back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY1S...

In 2022, the price of eggs in the US increased by 138%. Bird flu was blamed, but investigators found that Cal-Maine, Hickman’s and Verasona had raised prices in tandem to increase profits.The cartel was fined US$3 million and received US$193 million (public money) as compensation for the outbreak

Depuis 2007, le village de Djimini (Sénégal) accueille la Foire Ouest-Africaine de Semences Paysannes. Au fil des éditions, ce rendez-vous est devenu un haut lieu de rencontres et d’échanges pour le monde paysan sous-régional. synergies-africa.com/publication-... Synergies Africa

🚨 NEW REPORT: Our food systems run on fossil fuels—not just in trucks, but in synthetic fertilizers & pesticides applied worldwide. @futureoffood.bsky.social's new report Toxic Dependency maps how this locks in food system vulnerability & how we break free. 🔗 bit.ly/toxic-depend...

Estados Unidos y Brasil destinan más granos para agrocombustibles. Argentina, por ejemplo, elevó sus envíos de biodiésel a Europa de 50 mil a 280 mil toneladas en 2025, el negocio de los agrocombustibles compite con los alimentos y la tierra en el Cono Sur. www.agrolatam.com/argentina/ac...

El gobierno colombiano planea probar la fumigación con glufosinato de amonio en más de mil hectáreas de Putumayo. Ignora las alertas de organizaciones y científicas de los riesgos para la salud y la agricultura campesina, y la poca eficacia que tendría en cultivos ilícitos elpais.com/america-colo...

A recent mobilisation for food sovereignty in Benin highlighted the country's indigenous chicken breeds and the women who keep them. The action was part of an emerging campaign to protect local chickens in the hand of communities in Africa. www.facebook.com/reel/1774205...

La reforma de la Ley de Semillas vuelve al debate en Argentina. El gobierno amenaza con redactarla con Bayer e incluir la adhesión a UPOV 91, beneficiando principalmente a las empresas semilleras como Corteva, Syngenta y otras lapoliticambiental.com.ar/contenido/81...

As waves of investment sweep across Uganda, countless women rise to defend their land, safeguard their traditions, and claim their right to be heard. Readmore: radio.witnessradio.org/as-waves-of-in @wominafrica.bsky.social @grain.org @actionaiduk.bsky.social

New analyses shows the long destruction trails caused by World Bank and IMF that have deepens farmers' indebtedness, undermines food sovereignty, and erodes communities' control over land and resources. The Long Con:Traversing the IMF-World Bank’s long trail of ruin @ibonfoundation.bsky.social

Europe’s biggest salmon producers are beginning to feed chicken to their fish, breaking a longstanding taboo in the hunt for cheap protein. Supermarkets previously feared a backlash from consumers who might regard the practice 'unnatural'. What changed? ft.trib.al/y9R4aQC

La Corte Suprema de Argentina restituyó temporalmente la Ley de Tierras y suspendió el artículo 154 sobre extranjerización de la tierra del Decreto 70/2023. Organizaciones sociales celebran el fallo, y llaman a movilizarse para exigir la derogación total del decreto www.anred.org/ley-de-tierr...

Across Indonesia, the traces of so-called ‘energy transition’ is the same: the sacrifice of land, forest fire and conflicts. Biofuel production that relies heavily on monocultures, oil palm or sugarcane, are destroying vast tracts of remaining forest www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-art...

Tout comme les accords de libre-échange, le système de règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États (ISDS) doit être démantelé. Il permet aux multinationales d’exiger une indemnisation pour les "préjudices" qui leur posent des politiques publiques #StopISDS bilaterals.org/pages/case-map

In 2022, Mexican courts ordered US company Amway to return to local communities 280 hectares it had acquired illegally. Instead of complying, Amway filed a US$3 bn arbitration case for damages, which it lost. Today, it continues to deny communities access to their land. #StopISDS grain.org/e/7042

A series of investigation shows that rapid growth of fishmeal industry in Senegal have turn much of the fish caught in Senegal's water into feed for chickens, pigs, and farm-raised seafood production, raising concerns over local food supply and livelihoods. news.mongabay.com/2026/10/fish...

🔴 [ENQUÊTE] Vol de terres, pollution de l’eau, pratiques néocoloniales : @disclose.ngo révèle la face sombre d'ArcelorMittal et son acier "made in France". Au Liberia, les activités du groupe mettent en danger des milliers d’habitant·es. Sans scrupule. disclose.ngo/fr/article/a...

South Korea's fishing industry is heavily depends on migrant fishers with around 80% of them are migrants from other Asian countries. In Sept the country revamped its human trafficking guidelines to help prevent forced labor & other abuses in the fishing industry. news.mongabay.com/2026/10/sout...

UAE is building a whole city dedicated to agriculture (sic). It's called Qitaf and will be run by an investment firm, Abu Dhabi National Investment and Development. It plans to develop deep ties to Africa, especially Tanzania and Madagascar. Stay tuned! www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...

⚠️ Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides pollute our water and air, harming our health. Made using fossil fuels, they drive up food prices and divert attention away from real alternatives to industrial agriculture. This #GlobalFertilizerDay, read more in our article: https://bit.ly/4ycE5bV

🎥 La Suisse est au cœur du commerce mondial des matières premières. Dans cette vidéo de @lesechosfr.bsky.social, à laquelle Public Eye a participé, découvrez comment les négociants suisses exercent une influence mondiale souvent méconnue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUkX...

African farmers using the same fertiliser as their comrades in the US or Europe have to pay more for it. Why? Because of the market power of a small number of fertiliser companies and traders. Learn more: grain.org/e/7375 #GlobalFertilizerDay @ciel.org @wominafrica.bsky.social

Chemical fertilisers ruin soils, trap farmers in debt and tie food prices to that of oil and gas. Alternatives exist. Agroecology & local food systems build healthy soils, support farmers and feed communities, not corporations. #GlobalFertilizerDay grain.org/e/6903 @ciel.org

A global gathering of Indigenous peoples fighting carbon offset projects has issued a blunt message to governments, corporations and conservation NGOs: “Leave our lands and respect our rights, or we shall kick you out.” Read the Nairobi Declaration: www.survivalinternational.org/articles/903...

Indonesia announced that they will end deforestation for food & biofuel plantations. Coalition of affected communities and allies said that the statement is meaningless without stopping the project in South Papua that already destroy almost 50,000 ha of forest www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33726-i...

And now Elite Agro announces its 8th farm in Morocco! A full 400 hectares to grow avocados, blueberries and mandarines for the international market. farmlandgrab.org/33728

New report shows that more than 20% of palm oil plantations operating illegally in the Indonesian forest area are operated by RSPO-certified companies, including some of the industry’s biggest names such as Wilmar, Musim Mas and Golden Agri-Resources. eia-international.org/blog/palm-oi...

"Upgrading to UPOV 1991 is on the cooperation agenda between the EU/Netherlands and Argentina," the Dutch government says. www.agroberichtenbuitenland.nl/actueel/nieu... #StopUPOV @bothends.bsky.social @bilaterals-org.bsky.social @eurovia.org @lughiotto.bsky.social

Malawi has pitched a mega-farm plan to foreign investors, with help from the Gates-funded AGRA. Nearly 500,000 hectares are being put up for transformation into agribusiness! farmlandgrab.org/33725 @esaffuganda.bsky.social @oaklandinstitute.org @timschwab.bsky.social @rajpatel.org

❌ The Supreme Court of Argentina has overturned a ruling that prevented Milei from repealing the Land Law to allow foreign corporations unbridled access to Argentina's farmland. People are in the streets once again! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Sedima, the giant Senegalese poultry group set up by Babacar Ngom, plans to invest $35 million in a big industrial chicken farm in the Congo. www.billionaires.africa/2026/10/01/s...

Depuis 15 ans, Tozzi Green est accusée de piétiner les droits des communautés pour ses projets agricoles à Madagascar. Mais les revendications restent inchangées : le départ de l'entreprise et la restitution des terres des communautés. afriquexxi.info/A-Madagascar... @fpigeaud.bsky.social

Food systems are "the largest employer and the most abusive sector on the planet." Gross exploitation of hundreds of millions of people for the sake of cheap food and private profits, made worse by concentrated corporate control of supply chains.

Communities launch urgent call to World Bank and Canopy Trust to stop funding ASC Impact's 102,000 ha mononculture project in the Republic of Congo www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin-art...

Behind every meal is the work of many people. But what is that work really like? 📆 Join us on 5 Oct for the launch of #FoodWork, our new report exposing exploitation across global food chains. What will it take to guarantee dignified work for all? 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

La Altillanura colombiana vuelve a ponerse al servicio del agronegocio. El gobierno promueve una ley para flexibilizar el acceso a tierras. Se están ajustando también ,las reglas financieras para favorecer al sector agroexportador www.farmlandgrab.org/post/33715-m...

Cerca de 300 personas y organizaciones de Chile y el mundo condenan la campaña de amedrentamiento contra Fundación Libera y Ecoceanos por denunciar trabajo forzado y vulneraciones laborales en la industria del salmón www.ecoceanos.cl/2026/08/ampl...