A Kuramo Capital fund filed suit in Delaware seeking to oust the manager of its investments in DR Congo palm oil plant over his alleged scheme to loot the business.
Some famers from Mbeya Region have lost an appeal case over compensation and damages against a large rice farming company owned by Export Trading Group, which was accused of maliciously damaging their rice.
Le président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu) dénonce les récentes arrestations et violences policières suite aux protestations pacifiques contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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16 February 2021
President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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15 February 2021
The Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the Murang’a County Assembly to block any plans to renew the land leases held by Kakuzi until claims on historical land injustices are resolved.
- The Standard
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15 February 2021
British colonial plantation company producing food for UK supermarkets settles claims with victims of horrific abuses in Kenya - rape, murder and beatings - but refuses to address the issue of land.
The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
Ce prêt à l’agribusiness, marqué par un conflit terrien violent, questionne en profondeur la politique de développement voulue par BIO et l’état belge.
A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.
- RIAO-RDC et al.
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28 January 2021
Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.
- RIAO et al
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28 January 2021
Norfund reports losses of over $23 million on its investments in the UK company Agrica and its large-scale rice plantation in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania.
- Bistandsaktuelt
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08 January 2021