When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
- Collective statement
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28 February 2022
Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.
- Collective statement
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28 February 2022
BIO of Belgium, CDC of the UK, DEG of Germany and FMO from the Netherlands announce that they will cease to be Lenders to PHC, the operating company of three longstanding palm oil plantations in the DR Congo.
The government in February last year planned to evict 12,000 villagers after it set aside 12 940 hectares of communal land in their area for lucerne project by Dendairy.
- New Zimbabwe
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07 January 2022
Dutch Banks ING Group, ABN AMRO, and Rabobank have provided 3.1 billion Euros (nearly US$3.5 billion) to agriculture projects that have led to deforestation, land grab and human rights violations around the world in the last five years, a new report has found.
- Liberian Observer
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24 December 2021
The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.
- InfoCongo
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23 December 2021
In this video, Emmanuel Elong (SYNAPARCAM) makes the witness statement on the ING case at the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crime
- Framer Framed
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15 December 2021
In April 2021, the Netherlands-based Kempen Capital Management (Kempen) launched the SDG Farmland Fund – a new investment solution to offer institutional investors global access to farmland as an asset class.
New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).
Two Dutch insurance companies have invested in a fund buying farmland in Australia, Denmark, Portugal, New Zealand, and the US.
Investigation into the controversial palm oil sector in Liberia, the role of Dutch finance and impacts on local communities
- Financieel Dagblad
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13 July 2021