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Families in Buvuma, Uganda now realize they were deceived into signing documents to surrender their land to grow oil palm trees for an IFAD-funded project.

Ce guide fournit des conseils pratiques pour les contrats d’investissement en terres agricoles, en appliquant des principes et des normes internationaux pour la promotion de l’investissement responsable

Jointly produced by UNIDROIT and IFAD, the guide is the second international instrument adopted in the area of private law and agricultural development, following the Legal Guide on Contract Farming.

Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive industries, but ranged against this is the swift growth of an eco-feminist movement that regards protection of the environment as essential to the protection of human rights.

This commentary considers the access to food component of the draft UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and voices its silence on intellectual property rights.

A UNIDROIT Working Group is currently developing, in collaboration with FAO and IFAD, an instrument on agricultural land investment contracts.

Since 2006, a section of conservationists have been opposed to the Kalangala Oil Palm project as was the case with the BIDCO Buvuma project saying it is a big threat to the environment.

Ce fond table sur des investissements de 20 millions $ en Afrique de l’Ouest (Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana et Nigeria), en Afrique de l’Est (Tanzanie, Kenya et Ouganda) et en Afrique australe (Malawi, Zambie, Mozambique et Zimbabwe).

Bidco is not pleased by the protestors who turned up last week in London to highlight the company’s palm oil operations, specifically in neighbouring Uganda.

Contract farming and large-scale farming emerged as the two principal models to upgrade peasant agriculture to meaningful production levels

UN Agency IFAD is robbing poor farmers and farming communities of their land and livelihoods, leaving them destitute, and handing over their wealth for plunder by foreign corporations and profiteering financiers.

Figures show that the demand for wheat even within African countries is growing - making it one of the most strategic crops for investors seeking to buy land in Africa to invest in.