Issue: CORPORATE POWER & FINANCIALIZATION

Global land grab highlights growing inequality

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Massive tracts of land in the Global South are being bought up by international investors and ultra-rich corporations, fueling growing inequality – part of a wider global trend of wealth transfers away from the poor and working people.

The report from FIAN International and Focus on the Global South, Lords of the Land: Transnational Landowners, Inequality and the Case for Redistribution, puts the spotlight on the world’s ten largest transnational landowners – who together control 404,457 km², an area the size of Japan.

This is part of a global land rush. Since 2000, corporations and financial investors have acquired an estimated 65 million hectares of land – twice the size of Germany. Today, 70 percent of global farmland is controlled by the largest 1 percent of giant industrial-scale farms.

Forced displacements

This concentration has grave implications for food security, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers and 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest people, most of whom rely on agriculture for survival. It is also driving violence, forced evictions, and environmental destruction while also contributing significantly to climate change.

Virtually all the top global landowners named in the report have been implicated in reports of forced displacements, environmental destruction, and violence against communities.

One of the main players is the US pension fund TIAA, which has acquired 61,000 hectares in Brazil’s Cerrado region, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. In the Cerrado, approximately half of the land has been converted into tree plantations, large agro-industrial monocultures, and pastures for cattle production — amid reports of violent land grabs, deforestation and environmental destruction which already shows signs of impacting the climate.

TIAA almost quadrupled its global landholdings between 2012 and 2023 — from 328,200 hectares to 1.2 million hectares.

Inequality

Land concentration undermines state sovereignty and peoples’ self-determination, with distant corporations controlling vast tracts of land across multiple jurisdictions.

The industrial-scale monocropping, often carried out on this land, is a major driver of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem destruction, preventing just transitions to more equitable and sustainable food systems and economic models.

These developments reflect a broader global trend of rising inequality and wealth concentration. Since the mid-1990s, the richest 1% of the world’s population has captured 38% of all additional accumulated wealth, while the poorest 50% have received only 2%.  An estimated 3.6 billion people, or 44% of the world population, now live on less than US$ 6.85 a day, below the threshold for a dignified life.

Because land grabbing is largely driven by global capital and the accumulation of land across jurisdictions by transnational corporations and financial entities, international cooperation is essential. The upcoming International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) in Colombia early next year offers a critical opportunity for governments to agree on measures that end land grabbing, reverse land concentration, and ensure broad and sustainable distribution of natural resources.

In a world facing intersecting crises – from climate breakdown and food insecurity to entrenched poverty and social inequality – and amid reconfiguration of the global balance of power, now is the time to move away from neoliberal policies that have benefited very few, and to create a more just and sustainable global future for all.

Watch an expert panel discussion on the report here:

For more information or media interviews please contact Anisa Widyasari anisa@focusweb.org or Tom Sullivan sullivan@fian.org.

Solidarity not exploitation: we stand with food workers from farm to table

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At the beginning of May, on International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the strength and sacrifices of workers all over the world. But there are workers who are persistently overlooked – the millions who labour to produce, process and serve people their food, most of whom are in the informal economy – who we focus on in this edition of Supermarket Watch.

Whether we are talking about peasant farmers in Peru, street vendors in Zimbabwe or gig workers delivering food in India, workers across the food system – in production, processing, distribution or preparation – are essential for bringing food to people's tables and yet they remain among the most exploited workers in the world.

 
Peasants and landless farmers are often forcefully removed from ancestral lands by industrial agriculture or pushed out due to climate change and eco-destruction and must struggle to survive. Many migrate to become underpaid and undocumented workers in the agriculture industry of wealthier countries. These are the unseen workers who pick fruits, harvest vegetables, and pack meats for far away consumers — often with no healthcare, legal protection, or right to unionise.
 
In cities, street and market vendors, many of whom are women, face harassment and violence on a daily basis. They provide nutritious and accessible food to low-income communities but are still not recognised as workers providing essential services and typically have no access to any social protections.
 
Then we have the food delivery workers, dependent on a platform economy governed by algorithms that promises freedom and efficiency but only offers them insecurity, arbitrary penalties and meagre pay.
 
Food connects us all, but the people producing and supplying it are often rendered invisible. Their labour is considered “unskilled,” their struggles are ignored, and their organising is suppressed. In the month when we celebrate International Workers’ Day, we must own up to the human cost of our increasingly corporatised, exploitative and profoundly unequal food system. Every meal is made possible by workers whose rights — to rest, to organise, to live with dignity — are too often denied. The vast majority of food workers in the global South, and many in the global North, don't have access to basic social protections. With retirement pensions, for instance, after decades of hard work, farmers, fishers, farmworkers and food vendors across nearly the entire global South are either completely without a pension or only get paid a pittance.
 
Food sovereignty cannot be dissociated from labour justice. That means fair wages, healthy and safe working conditions, social protection and collective bargaining. For the millions of workers in the informal economy, it also means ensuring their rights to full legal and social protections and participation in policy-making. This is possible to do, and, for instance, there are examples out there already of global South countries where governments, usually pushed by strong social movements, have enacted public pension systems designed to provide a dignified retirement for small farmers and their families. At the upcoming 113th International Labour Conference in Geneva, governments, workers and employers the world over will be discussing labour standards for both those in the informal economy and those in the platform economy. It is crucial that the needs and interests of food workers, in all their diversity, are front-and-centre in these discussions. 
 
Let's fight together for a food system rooted in solidarity, not exploitation!
 
Read the latest issue here.
 
For more information contact Laura Michéle michele@fian.org
 

Supermarket Watch supports local food struggles

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Supermarket Watch began a decade ago at a time when supermarkets and convenience store chains were expanding faster in Asia than anywhere else in the world and rapidly changing the face of Asian food markets. They undermined the region's long tradition of fresh food markets, which provide consumers everywhere in Asia with vegetables, fruits, meat, fish and all kinds of healthy, prepared foods, and were supported by government policies to support that growth.

The supermarketisation of food markets is now well advanced in the Americas and Europe, and is  slowly spreading in Africa, from South Africa and a few countries in North Africa to the rest of the continent, prompting an expansion of this bulletin's scope by its editors and authors in GRAIN, FIAN International and StreetNet International.

Supermarkets do not just push out traditional, local markets. They have dramatic impacts on people's diets and the ways in which foods are produced. They marginalize locally produced food and encourage the consumption of ultra-processed “food products”. In countries such as Mexico, where supermarkets and convenience stores have taken over food markets, we see a paradox where millions of people suffer from hunger or malnutrition while at the same time millions of others are affected by obesity, diabetes and other food-related illnesses.

Fortunately, there is a growing, strong resistance to this supermarket expansion. People in different places around the world are organizing to defend food distribution systems and local markets that are rooted in the community. They are taking actions against laws and regulations that undermine the presence of fresh food markets and harass and criminalize street and market vendors. Public markets that were once a decentralized space for street and market traders, have become battlegrounds for economic justice and livelihood.

In this context, we believe it is critical to share information emanating from the struggles of small farmers and food producers, street and market vendors, and cross-border traders around the world and to deepen connections between these struggles to help foster a global movement.

We hope the bulletin will continue to serve as a tool for social movements in defense of food sovereignty!

Read the latest issue here.

For more information contact Laura Michéle michele@fian.org

FIAN's road ahead in global struggle for the right to food

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Ana Maria became secretary general of FIAN International earlier this year, taking over from Sofía Monsalve whose long tenure transformed the organization, linking its mission to critical global issues from climate change to digitalization, financialization, conflict and care work.

She has extensive experience of international advocacy, including more than two decades at FIAN International, most recently serving as the organization’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva. 

How do you see your role as FIAN secretary general?

I see my role as providing strategic leadership to advance the right to food and nutrition globally in line with FIAN’s strategic plan. Over 23 years, I have learned from peasants, Indigenous Peoples, fishers, scholars, policymakers, and others.

I will use all those learnings, following the inspiration of Sofía Monsalve, our former secretary general, to provide strategic leadership to the organization in tackling threats to the right to food. This includes revealing false solutions in the context of food systems transformation and just transitions and amplifying people’s solutions such as agroecology and food sovereignty.

In times of uncertain geopolitical change, my role also consists of leading our organization to create a critical mass that resists, denounces, provides alternatives and strengthens collective advocacy. I also aim to guide FIAN so we continue accompanying the defense of communities affected by systemic human rights violations – including through our case work and deepening ties with social movements, particularly youth, to challenge inequalities in food systems.

What are the main challenges ahead and how will FIAN face them?

Amid multiple global crises — climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, wars, and drug trafficking — that deepen hunger, poverty, and inequality, we face an additional challenge: the rise of authoritarian governments dismantling public institutions, prioritizing profit over people and polarizing societies. These movements threaten the post-war consensus enshrined in the UN Charter: peace, human rights, and social progress, and hinder progress toward fair, healthy and sustainable food systems and just transitions.

Our newly adopted strategic plan provides clear goals to respond to these challenges within FIAN’s mandate. With its six thematic struggles and eight strategic tools, it offers a roadmap for action.

What difference can FIAN make in the global struggle for the right to food?

For almost 40 years, FIAN has been deeply committed to advancing people’s struggles for the right to food, addressing oppression by states and non-state actors and tackling power imbalances. What sets FIAN apart is its case work – advocating with communities for their right to food, while bridging local struggles to global policies and governance.

FIAN’s facilitation skills strengthen the right-to-food movement, connecting diverse actors across regions and sectors while fostering solidarity and collective power. This work is crucial for driving change, especially under authoritarian regimes, as recognized by allies and sections. Facilitating in such a diverse ecosystem requires openness to learn from all actors equally, critical analysis of mainstream solutions, and strategic dialogue coordination. Though often invisible, the facilitation work we do is essential for building bridges and strengthening collective action in environments that respect and value diversity.

Our persistence, capacity to collaborate with others, creativity, and the commitment of each person engaged in FIAN, continue to be invaluable for strengthening the right to food movement and achieving transformative change worldwide.

How optimistic are you about the prospects of advancing the right to food in the current climate?

Despite the challenges, there is much to celebrate: the 20th anniversary of the UN Right to Food Guidelines saw progress in implementation. FIAN Colombia secured constitutional recognition of the right to food, Ecuador’s peasants won landmark cases on the right to land and Uganda saw reduced military violence against fishers after years of advocacy. Our efforts, alongside many allies, to increase corporate accountability are bearing fruit, with steps toward a binding instrument to address the harms of Big Food, Big Tech, Big Agro and major financial actors.

I also believe that progress in recognizing the human rights of future generations offers new avenues to combat environmental crises and promote justice. And our work on food care is highlighting important paths for gender equity and dismantling patriarchal practices that harm women and LGBTQIA+.

These steps, though small, represent meaningful progress. Walking them in solidarity brings us closer to a world where food systems prioritize people and the planet over corporate interests.

For more information please contact Ana Maria Suarez Franco: suarez-franco@fian.org

 

Nyéléni process: Waves of resistance. Fisher peoples defending food sovereignty

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In a rapidly changing world, beset by war and billionaire oligarchs, fishing livelihoods remain ignored in policy discussions. US President Trump’s ‘drill baby drill’ agenda, worldwide extractivism, neo-protectionist nature enclosure through 30by30 (Global Biodiversity Framework), government-backed aquaculture expansion, and profit-driven mega projects continue eroding fisher peoples’ territories and livelihoods.

The rise of the radical right has led some governments to reduce or eliminate development aid,  and philanthropy holds greater sway in determining what and who gets support, further deteriorating the funding landscape. As NGOs and fisher movements increasingly rely on funding from philanthropy, this can lead to co-optation of some organizations’ political agendas and create division between those maintaining food sovereignty principles and those following funder-directed focuses like 30by30, ‘blue foods’ and ‘blue transformations’[1].

Fisher movements must unite to discuss political positions and tactics. Following the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty’s (IPC) decision to avoid endorsing the UN Food Systems Summit, similar positions may be needed on other imposed agendas. Fisher movements need to set their own agenda, and actively shape the direction of the larger food sovereignty movement. The Nyéléni Global Forum in September 2025 in Sri Lanka offers such an opportunity: to put fisheries on the agenda, build solidarity with other small food producers, food workers and climate movements, and advance the food sovereignty struggle.

FIAN International, GRAIN, IPC working group on fisheries, TNI, WFF, WFFP

Read the Nyeleni Newsletter No.52 here or download

Illustration : Rosine Nsimire (Alliance pour la vie), Alessandro Musetta – Agathe, the matriarch above the water is a mixed-media digital publication documenting the experiences of artisanal fisherwomen from Lake Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

FIAN International annual report looks back on 2024

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FIAN’s latest annual report takes stock of some of the main struggles we are engaged in around the world for the right to food and nutrition.

During 2024, FIAN joined forces with grassroots groups and international alliances to oppose the ongoing weaponization of food, a key driver of global hunger, notably in Palestine. We also began new research on the failure of the international community to adequately respond to famines in conflict areas.

The sea is a major source of nutrition for many. Working with local partners, FIAN helped to expose the appropriation of aquaculture affecting fisher peoples and coastal communities in Tamil Nadu, India. We also supported UN advocacy led by the World Forum of Fisher Peoples, amplifying grassroots demands for recognition of fisher peoples and coastal communities, asserting their rights to land, water, and fisheries.

We marked the 20th anniversary of the UN’s Right to Food Guidelines in June with allies in the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (GNRTFN) calling on governments to incorporate the right to food into national legislation, regulations, policies and programs.

We have been working for some time with the feminist school of the Latin American Alliance for Food Sovereignty and in 2024 we published a booklet showcasing their experiences which aims to be a tool to inspire others to action. The school builds bridges across generations and reveals the hidden contributions of women to local economies, highlighting their vital role in food production and care and motivating them to take more power in decision making.

At COP 29, we called for people-led solutions and a just transition to agroecology and sounded the alarm on the socioeconomic and environmental risks of digitalized and financialized carbon markets in debates around the topic in the UN.

We joined forces with allies to advocate for strong corporate accountability for human rights and environmental harm – and for an end to corporate capture of the UN. This included denouncing new attempts to derail negotiations on a binding treaty to regulate transnational corporations.

FIAN’s International Council, which comprises 19 national sections, met in Portugal at the end of the year and adopted a new Strategic Plan to guide our global work until 2030.

The great work of our national Sections continued to be a major source of inspiration.

For example, FIAN Uganda reported a marked decrease in military violence against fisher people following years of grassroots activism and campaigning. And we celebrated with FIAN Colombia the culmination of more than a decade of advocacy work which contributed to a groundbreaking constitutional amendment mandating the state to guarantee the human right to adequate food.

We look forward to many more positive examples like these in the year ahead, as we join forces with FIAN Sections and our allies around the world fighting for a global transition to agroecology, food sovereignty and everyone’s right to food and nutrition.

Download the annual report here.

UN treaty on transnational corporations must put people over profit

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Despite long-standing demands from affected communities, social movements and civil-society organizations, no binding global legal framework exists to hold big-agro, big-food, big-tech and big-financial corporations accountable for human rights abuses around the world. This lack of global regulation allows TNCs to escape accountability by finding legal loopholes, subcontracting their obligations to entities in their value chain, or using their economic groups or holding structures in different jurisdictions.

Transnational corporations, which dominate global value chains concentrate power in today’s globalized economies, frequently using their position to harm human rights and the environment in the pursuit of profit – as FIAN has witnessed in recent cases in Senegal and the Balkans, to name just two. Most of these abuses and violations have no legal consequences nor remedies for those affected.

“The existing asymmetries between trade and investment law give rights to corporations, and weak voluntary human rights standards only suggest how corporations should respect human rights, especially from a national perspective and without clear liability regimes,” says FIAN International’s permanent representative to the UN, Ana María Suárez Franco. 

“This allow corporations to exploit numerous loopholes in a globalized world where global value chains are controlled by a few powerful economic actors.”. 

Vibrant civil society participation despite setbacks

In 2024, the intergovernmental working groups negotiating the UN TNC treaty adopted a technical decision to provide more resources that will intensify the negotiations. Nonetheless, during the last year most of the consultations were held on methodologies rather than substance. Moreover, abruptly in September, the dates of the negotiations were postponed from late October to the week before Christmas, a decision which impacts the ability of many participants to attend – notably civil-society organizations, social movements and representatives from affected communities

Despite this, FIAN International and many of our civil society partners from around the world will attend negotiations from 16 to 20 December.

Beyond negotiating the text of the treaty, the 10th session will aim to define the road map of intersessional negotiations to be held in 2025 and the role of legal experts announced earlier this year.  Civil society, social movements, Indigenous Peoples part of the Treaty Alliance, the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign), the Feminists for the Binding Treaty, the ESCR-Net and the Young Friends of the Treaty will attend the negotiations and continue advocating for states to actively participate in the negotiations.

The collective aim is to strengthen the currently weakened draft text and ensure robust prevention mechanisms that go beyond mere due diligence and strong gender-responsive provisions. We are also seeking extraterritorial liability regimes that put the burden of proof on perpetrators and include joint liability along the value chains, as well as effectively ensuring people's access to remedy where controlling companies are based and where they operate.

Transnational, intergenerational justice, gender and intersectionality

Concerned with the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution and destruction of biodiversity, many environmental organizations are demanding a strong environmental component in the TNC treaty, incorporating the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

“A treaty that does not protect the environment nor make those responsible for environmental harm liable, will not be effective enough to protect humanity from corporate greed and ensure the remediation of losses and damages, including regarding their intergenerational impact,” says Stephan Backes, secretary of the Consortium on Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO Consortium) and corporate accountability officer at FIAN.

“Transition, including towards more just, healthy and sustainable food systems, cannot be fair without robust corporate accountability beyond borders and generations”.

The differential impact of corporate harm on women and LGTBQ+ people has been strongly argued by the Feminists for the Binding Treaty. Access to remedy, protection of rightsholders, prevention and liability must be negotiated including gender-sensitive regulations that allow people with diverse gender identities and women to access justice and remedy and to adequately participate in their definition.

During the week of negotiations, FIAN will stay vigilant urging states to take prompt effective action and continue advocating for human dignity and nature at the UN. We urge all member States to respond to the demands of human rights and environmental defenders and actively negotiate a treaty that is effective to stop corporate injustice to ensure a more just world for all – today and in the future. 

For more information or media interviews please contact Amanda Cordova (cordova-gonzales@fian.org) 

Stop Big Food and transform food systems

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FIAN Brazil and the Zago Brothers have created a satirical film exposing the cynical nature of this industry fueled by an unholy alliance of Big Food, Big Money, Big Agro and Big Tech, who portray themselves as heroes but whose interests rarely align with the needs of the people.  

Overwhelmed by the magnitude of a multi-billion-dollar industry that enjoys so much impunity, we can often feel paralyzed – accepting that we are powerless and unequipped to challenge it.  

But as the film shows, this exploitative system is being exposed for what it is, and it can be challenged.  

 

 

This comic strip turned animation – which began with an ESCR-Net series “The power of the 99% to stop corporate capture” – takes us through segments of big-scale food production and its consequences, from monoculture to loss of biodiversity, environmental destruction, displacement, misleading marketing, food manipulation, and more, culminating in a freakish musical presentation in an odd attempt to win over the public.  

The food sovereignty and agroecology movement is gathering momentum. People are demanding change. It is time for a binding international treaty to put an end to corporate impunity and hold business to account for environmental destruction and human rights abuses. 

For more information or media interviews please contact Amanda Cordova (cordova-gonzales@fian.org) or Tom Sullivan (sullivan@fian.org)

FIAN adopts new strategic plan

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At a time of rising hunger, protracted conflicts, environmental destruction, climate change and corporate capture of global food governance, FIAN International has reaffirmed its commitment to stand alongside communities, Indigenous Peoples, peasants, fishers, food workers and others fighting for systemic change in food systems.

“This Strategic Plan reaffirms FIAN’s vision and pillars, emphasizing the organization's commitment to ensure the right to food using human rights mechanisms, supporting peoples' struggles, taking care of nature and tackling intersectionality,” said FIAN International Board President Priscilla Claeys, at the meeting in Lisbon last week, attended by delegates from FIAN Sections (national offices) around the world.

“It outlines the struggles FIAN addresses, the strategies it employs and paves the way for discussions on how to strengthen the organization in a changing global context. Central to this plan is the goal of dismantling colonial practices and promoting gender balance and generational diversity, both within FIAN and in its external work.

The new Strategic Plan is organized around six thematic struggles and will be coordinated with FIAN Sections and close allies around the world, including the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition. It has two new focus areas: peace, justice and self-determination; and gender justice, women’s rights and care in food systems.

“FIAN International and its Sections play a crucial role in ensuring that our plan becomes a reality in the places where those who have been traditionally marginalized and disadvantaged live, through diverse levels of impact in our work for social justice,” said FIAN International Board Vice President Juana Camacho Segura.

“The FIAN family also aims to foster critical democratic debates through awareness raising, popular education, promotion of knowledge sharing, community mobilization and advocacy that push for changes in governance, which are necessary to tackle the structural causes of poverty and inequality.”

Throughout the International Council meeting, FIAN Sections highlighted the importance of strengthening knowledge sharing and of adopting clear mechanisms of monitoring implementation of the Strategic Plan. They also agreed to reinforce efforts to ensure the sustainability of the organization, both through generational renewal and greater collaboration on funding.

The International Council approved another three-year term for the International Board and thanked outgoing board member Angela Mulenga and treasurer Thomas Albert Wolfer for their years of dedication. It also thanked outgoing Secretary General Sofia Monsalve for her many years of service and welcomed her successor Ana Maria Suarez Franco, FIAN’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, who will take on the role in January.

Download the FIAN International Strategic Plan (2024-2030) here.

For more information, please contact Tom Sullivan: sullivan@fian.org

France and Spain must regulate their companies in Senegal

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Senegalese authorities have dispossessed hundreds of farmers in Western Senegal to make way for phosphate mining and mineral extraction by Spanish-Senegalese firm SEPHOS and French-Senegalese company Grande Côte Opérations (GCO).

These companies – and the authorities which granted them permits to extract phosphate, zircon, ilmenite and other minerals – have infringed the human rights of local communities in Koudiadiène, Lam-Lam, Pambal as well as in Diogo and surrounding areas, including the right to adequate food and nutrition, the right to land, the right to a healthy, clean and sustainable environment, the right to health and the right to water, according to a new report from FIAN International (English summary – full report in French here).

Although most communities in rural Senegal have access to land according to traditional customary rights, rather than formal land titles, the report highlights a lack of legal recognition of the practice. This leaves peasants and rural communities unprotected when authorities grant mining concessions to domestic or foreign companies.

“Koudiadiène is in the phosphate mining reserve. This material is under our feet and if the state needs it, the population will have to move,” lamented one Koudiadiène community member.  

Moreover, the level of compensation offered for the loss of land has been derisory or non-existent  pushing many affected people into extreme poverty

“Before, we were comfortable and had enough to eat. The women helped with the agricultural tasks. The income from the crops enabled us to eat well and cover all our other expenses. Since our field has been grabbed, I don't work and stay at home,” said Ndeye Ndiaye, a victim of land grabbing from Diogo

“My children don't have enough to eat. I often ask the neighbors for money to pay for the children's medical care. We are tired. We need help,” she added.

The affected communities were not informed about the mining operations in advance, despite the devastating impact it has since had on their crops and health.

“Peasants are not even notified in time of the machines' intervention on their fields … community members with fields close to the mine have lost everything because of the dust that settles on their crops,” explained Armand Gondet Dione, a human rights defender from Pambal.

“The fields have become unfit for cultivation. Trees have dried up and died before they could even be inventoried. Grazing areas are disappearing, flora and fauna are dying, drought and erosion are worsening.”

Both SEPHOS, which is engaged in phosphate mining and GCO, which extracts zircon, ilmenite, rutile and leucoxene have parent companies or main assets respectively in Spain and France.

While Senegal has clearly infringed its obligations under international human rights law and domestic laws, Spain and France are also obliged according to international human rights law to take steps to ensure that mining companies based on their territory do not undermine the right to food and other related rights in Senegal. This obligation also requires states to sanction these actors in the event of abuse, and to provide recourse to those affected by these companies, notably through their national courts and adequate remedies.

Spain and France must take responsibility for the lives destroyed by their companies and take action without delay.

Read the full report in French here.

The report will soon be available in Spanish.

In English, you can access here the report’s key messages, recommendations, and a graph illustrating one case of derisory compensation.

For more information, please contact Valentin Hategekimana hategekimana@fian.org or Tom Sullivan sullivan@fian.org