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La Coalition des organisations de la société civile pour la responsabilité sociétale des entreprises accuse l’entreprise Olam Palm Gabon, dont l’usine est implantée à Ndendé, de polluer la rivière Iroungou.

Le groupe singapourien Olam annonce la cession d’une participation minoritaire de 35,4% du capital d’Olam Agri à Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company, une filiale en propriété exclusive du Fonds d'investissement public du Royaume d'Arabie saoudite, pour un montant de $1,24 milliard.

Death threats and exile: Local environmental defenders are the front line of the climate crisis - protecting the land they live on when it’s threatened by powerful business interests.

Aujourd’hui, on compte 730 fonds d’investissement spécialisés dans le secteur de l’alimentation et l’agriculture, qui gèrent plus de $120 milliards, contre seulement environ 50 fonds en 2005

The minister said the MoU requires all parties to work together to build 10,000 Agriculture 4.0 greenhouses over the next 10 years that are to produce at least 400 tonnes of crops a year.

A fifth of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of palm oil, are operating illegally inside forest areas that are off-limits to commercial agricultural activity, a new report from Greenpeace shows.

Global Witness goes undercover to investigate the growing threat facing Papua New Guinea’s communities and tropical forests from palm oil companies driving widespread deforestation and human rights abuses.

Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.

Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.

The joint venture by Wilmar, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Africa Ltd is establishing its second palm oil project on Buvuma Island and targets to have 1,000ha under trees this year and 5,000ha in four years

The company is also found to have violated the land and cultural rights of local communities, including the right to free prior and informed consent and social requirements on basic needs and grievance and remedy.

Olam se présente comme « le plus grand producteur durable d’huile de palme sur une concession d’une superficie totale de 202 000 ha au Gabon. »