Campaigners have forced the biggest shareholder in a titanium mining project on south Africa's 'Wild Coast' to withdraw, reports Rachel Lees. But they now fear the project itself will continue under the auspices of local 'front' companies, while the big profits enrich the British and Australian investors that are the real masters of Africa's neo-colonial minerals boom.
… Finance UK Australia Indigenous Peoples Campaigning … much more than the impact of public campaigning. For instance, War on Want's … and MRC's activities we see the necessity of campaigning in Britain made clear too. But the …
With little hope of a binding deal on climate change at the latest UN summit, campaigners are hoping that Africa's COP will tackle the issue that plagues the continent most: agriculture
… advocates and civil society groups are campaigning for the upcoming United Nations …
A $395 million coal fired power station is planned for Mauritius - bulldozed aver the wishes of the population, official advice and the environment ministry. But as Zaheer Allam reports, there's still everything to fight for.
… revealed that CT Group may have been printing campaigning materials for free for the ruling …
Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but sweet-toothed Western consumers could be fuelling conflict between poor farming communities and big business with every spoonful. Sam Campbell reports from Phnom Penh
Revealed: the bitter taste of Cambodia’s sugar boom Sam Campbell | 13th April 2011 News Tea Africa Cambodia Sugar Food And Farming cambodia-im,age-main-piece.jpg Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but …
Campaign groups on the verge of leaving international diamond trade body because of failures to prevent military takeovers of mines, worker deaths and systematic smuggling
Zimbabwe given 'one last chance' on diamond mining exports The Ecologist | 16th July 2010 News Mining Society Diamonds Africa diamondmining.jpg As many as 3.7 million people may have died in African …
When Martin Cradick and Su Hart travelled to West Africa in 1992, little did they know the journey would set their lives on a whole new direction, writes Matthew Newsome. Inspired by the Baka people of Cameroon's rainforest and the joy that resonates through their music, they are now dedicated to saving this vulnerable people using their magical music to reach into people's hearts.
Two musicians' quest to save the forest people of Cameroon - Martin & Su of Baka Beyond Matthew Newsome | 10th June 2015 Comment Indigenous Peoples Arts Music Cameroon Africa baka flyer-square.jpg …
Of course rising world population matters, writes Biff Vernon, due to its impact on the planet and its resources. But to actually do something about it, don't even mention the 'p' word. Instead let's cut back on our wasteful, high-consumption lifestyles - and empower women everywhere!
… migration and nationalism. The UK-based campaigning organisation, Population Matters … with xenophobia and racism. So when campaigning organisations question Britain's … were to open. But some of their current campaigning is little short of disaster, …
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception - lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
… environmental activists - for the courageous campaigning work which brought the whole … to get justice." Great personal risks Whilst campaigning, Omido escaped a possible …
Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010
Brazilian GM crop surge reported The Ecologist | 23rd February 2010 News Gm Food And Farming Brazil Africa gmmaize.jpg GM maize in Brazil accounted for more than 60 per cent of the increase in GM …
Ecocide is a global problem, writes Bukola Saraki, and laws are desperately needed to hold companies to account for the damage they cause. Nigeria - long despoiled with impunity by the oil industry - is just the place to start.
Fighting ecocide in Nigeria Senator Dr Bukola Saraki | 5th February 2014 Comment Ecocide Africa Nigeria Oil Fossil Fuels EU oil-flare-niger-delta.png Ecocide is a global problem, writes Bukola …
Last November Tanzania's President Kikwete tweeted his promise that the evictions of indigenous Maasai people and their villages near Serengeti National Park would stop. But now another round of evictions is under way: thousands of Maasai have been evicted at gunpoint and their homes burnt to ashes. The Maasai say: 'We need your help!'
Tanzania breaks promise - thousands of Maasai evicted to make way for lion hunt The Ecologist | 27th February 2015 News Indigenous Peoples Tanzania Africa Conservation Hunting Corporations …
The pristine landscape of South Africa's Wild Coast is under threat from mining, writes Hal Rhoades, and the communities standing up to defend the land are facing deadly consequences: harassment, threats, physical assault and murder. Attacks on mine opponents have taken four lives so far and many others have been injured. But the opposition is growing and gaining international support.
Mining, money and murder: the deadly struggle to protect South Africa's Wild Coast Hal Rhoades | 12th May 2016 News Mining South Africa Africa Indigenous Peoples Protest Finance Corporations …
Violence and incarceration for months or even years found on ships off coast of west Africa, which supply European consumers with fish
'Slavery' uncovered on trawlers fishing for Europe Felicity Lawrence The Guardian | 30th September 2010 News Fish Food And Farming Africa bycatch.jpg Workers were found to be living in squalid …
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. Now the farmers are fighting back.
Ghana's farmers battle ‘Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom Chris Walker Oliver Tickell | 24th October 2014 News Food Farming Seeds Ghana Africa Law Politics ghana-farmers-protest-cut.jpg Ghana's …
Across Africa, corporations are grabbing community land and water - and nowhere more than in Liberia, where half the country has already been lost. But one community has shown it's possible to overcome intimidation, organize and resist.
When our land is free, we're all free Silas Kpanan'Ayoung Siakor Jacinta Fay | 7th May 2014 News Land Grabs Africa Farming Indigenous Peoples epo-women-dancing-cut.jpg Across Africa, corporations are …
Coca-Cola is the latest company to join the agricultural 'scramble for Africa', writes Miriam Ross. Backed by £600 million of British aid under the guise of 'food security' and 'nutrition', a vast give-away of Africa's land is under way that will condemn small farmers to landlessness and poverty.
Coca-Cola is not the solution to hunger in Africa Miriam Ross | 22nd September 2014 Comment Food Farming Corporations Africa UK farmer-ethiopia-keep-watch-cut.jpg A small farmer keeps watch over his …
With the deadline due this year for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
… quite. Friends of the Earth Europe has been campaigning for years to address the problems … Europe, together with many other groups , is campaigning to ensure the UN adopts a proposal …
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
… his own village and other communities. His campaigning alone makes him a worthy winner of …
'Land grab' report highlights growing interest from speculators in ‘flex’ crops like soya, palm oil and sugarcane that can be used for biofuels or food
Biofuels not food the biggest driver of 'land grabbing' deals, says report Laurie Tuffrey | 18th December 2011 News Food And Farming Land Grab Africa Deforestation Palm Oil landrights.jpg More the 50 …
WWF’s support for 'fortress conservation' has led to serious human rights abuses for indigenous peoples, writes Lewis Evans, and nowhere more so than in Cameroon, where the Baka are considered trespassers and poachers in their own ancestral forests. A formal complaint against WWF's behaviour is now in process.
Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF Lewis Evans | 6th March 2016 Comment Africa Cameroon Natural World Human Rights Indigenous Peoples …
Conservation groups are to renew efforts to persuade the UK government to ban imports of animal parts killed by trophy hunters.
Governments must ban trophy hunting Catherine Early | 5th July 2019 News Change Makers Trophy Hunting Africa Wildlife Conservation Politics DEFRA trophy_hunt1.jpeg Conservation groups are to renew …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
2014 Goldman winners - fighting coal, dams, palm oil, fracking, toxic waste Sophie Morlin-Yron | 28th April 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Waste Water Energy USA Indonesia Russia Peru Africa India …
The Kwegu people of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are facing starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the destruction of their forest and the damming of the Omo river - supported by a UK, EU and World Bank funded 'aid' program.
Ethiopia: Kwegu tribe starves, victims of dam and land grabs Oliver Tickell | 13th March 2015 News Ethiopia Africa Indigenous Peoples UK EU Development Land Grabs Farming Water kwegu in cultivation …