Netherlands

Cownexxion indicates its interest in building cattle ranches in Nigeria on sidelines of meeting between NIgeria's President and CEOs of Dutch companies at The Hague.

Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved in scandals concerning destruction of rainforest and land-grabbing in Asia and Africa. Milieudefensie is calling on the banks to cease financing the industrial palm oil sector.

APB, the Dutch pension fund for government and education employees, announced it would divest 300,000 euros from Posco Daewoo over deforestation in Indonesian Papua.

Les populations de Lokutu ont vigoureusement protestées contre les récents cas d’abus commis par la nouvelle société de gardiennage armée de FERONIA.

The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.

Longtemps en difficulté, le groupe canadien arrivé dans le pays en 2009 dit qu'il devrait réaliser ses premiers bénéfices cette année.

The Kahlbetzer family’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold three properties in Lachlan Valley in New South Wales to two overseas investors – MERS Global Investments and Optifarm

Récemment, FERONIA a mis en place une politique agressive à l’encontre des leaders des communautés locales en les forçant à signer des mémorandums d’endente, appelés ‘cahier des charges’.

During the event investment opportunities and the potential of Kazakhstan in the agricultural sector were presented to 60 Dutch businessmen

Fourteen indigenous leaders and human rights defenders from forest countries called upon Dutch policy makers to take action against human rights abuses, land grabbing and deforestation in relation to large scale agriculture, timber logging and mining

Swedwatch report shows how local communities were affected when the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone stalled and when development banks exited from the project without taking steps to protect that the rights of local communities.

Communiqué from RIAO DRC denouncing recent threats and intimidation against communities and NGOs in the oil palm plantation areas of the Canadian company Feronia.