Sifca to invest $417 million in West Africa palm-oil expansion
    Sifca Group, which owns Africa’s biggest palm-oil refinery located in Ivory Coast, said it plans to spend $417 million in the next five years on plantations and factories in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia.
    • Bloomberg
    • 21 July 2013
    ABP, PFZW to stick with controversial palm oil firm
    Dutch pension funds say they will remain invested in Wilmar International due to their successful efforts to engage with the controversial palm-oil company accused by many of land grabbing
    • IPE
    • 28 May 2013
    European banks and penion funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda
    European banks and pension funds continue to finance one of the largest and most destructive palm oil giants Wilmar International, according to new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe.
    • FOE
    • 21 May 2013
    Asian palm-oil planters head to West Africa
    Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 April 2013
    Norwegian fund pulls out of 'unsustainable' palm oil companies
    Norway’s US$710bn sovereign investment fund has pulled its investment from 23 Southeast Asian palm oil companies, claiming that they source palm oil unsustainably.
    • Food Navigator
    • 12 Mar 2013
    Wilmar buys 53.7% stake in Noble’s Indonesia palm venture
    Wilmar International has taken a majority stake in a palm plantation venture in Indonesia’s Papua owned by Noble Group, giving the world’s biggest palm oil supplier a toehold in the province where it also hopes to grow sugar cane.
    • Today Online
    • 23 February 2013
    Wilmar move to secure Burdekin land
    Wilmar has flagged the purchase of another 778 hectares of land in the Burdekin region south of Townsville, Australia as part of its campaign to lock up as much supply as possible.
    • The Australian
    • 25 January 2013
    Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab
    Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
    • All Voices
    • 18 November 2012
    Land grabbing for food and biofuel: a case of MIFEE
    This case study is done by Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) in close coordination with the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP).
    • PAN AP
    • 18 October 2012
    Afrique Centrale : Olam et Wilmar convoiteraient des terres agricoles
    Le groupe agro-industriel ivoirien SIFCA, détenu par les Singapouriens Olam et Wilmar, seraient prêt à débarquer en Afrique centrale pour y développer des plantations de palmiers à huile.
    • Afrique 7
    • 17 May 2012
    World Bank under attack for aiding land grabs in Uganda
    BIDCO project wreaks environmental havoc, hunger, and human rights abuse in Kalangala
    • The Independent
    • 06 May 2012
    Wilmar acquires land in Nigeria
    Wilmar acquires three new plantations for 19,712 hectares in Nigeria's Cross River State.
    • Rural Modernity
    • 17 April 2012

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