Hain Celestial acquires Tilda rice business
- Just-Food
- 14 January 2014
US natural and organic food group Hain Celestial has acquired premium Basmati rice manufacturer Tilda Ltd, which operates an 1,100 ha rice plantation in Uganda.
US natural and organic food group Hain Celestial has acquired premium Basmati rice manufacturer Tilda Ltd, which operates an 1,100 ha rice plantation in Uganda.
Private equity firm Pearl Capital Partners and Voxtra have invested $4 million in Biyinzika Enterprises Ltd, a Uganda-based poultry feeds processor and farm operator.
The film "No Land No Food No Life" examines the challenges and struggles farmers face despite the exultation they experience in their fight to retain control of their land.
In 2001, more than 4,000 people were evicted from land in Uganda after it had been acquired by a German coffee firm on a 99-year lease. The company insists the deal was above board, but an NGO is now raising doubts
Según un nuevo estudio, bancos y los fondos de jubilación europeos están financiando a la gigante de palma aceitera Wilmar International, que está implicada en el acaparamiento de tierras en 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.
Het Maleisische palmoliebedrijf Wilmar is wereldwijd op grote schaal betrokken bij landroof, milieuovertredingen en schending van nationale wetten bij palmolieprojecten.
The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) has observed that unfair government policies and ignorance of land rights and values have escalated the problem of land grabbing by investors in the country.
Tras 10 largos años de pelea, un juez ugandés finalmente se ha pronunciado dando la razón a 400 familias campesinas a quienes echaron, pegaron y arrebataron sus tierras para cederlas a una multinacional alemana de café, Neuman Kaffee Gruppe.
The High Court in Kampala ordered that approximately eleven million euros of compensation be paid to the 2,041 people evicted from their land 13 years ago.
In large-scale land acquisitions, local communities are often insufficiently compensated, under-consulted, and left with their livelihoods threatened.
"Aux gouvernements de ne pas brader leurs terres," explique Kanayo F. Nwanze, président du FIDA.
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