After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.
- Oakland Institute
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22 June 2021
Bienvenue aux « Terres de Socapalm » : six palmeraies sont réparties sur ce territoire de 58 000 hectares au sud-ouest du Cameroun – ce qui représente un tiers de la superficie de la province d’Utrecht.
- De Volkskrant
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25 May 2021
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.
La mère de Efolafola Nisoni Manu, agé de 20 ans, parle de sa meurtre en février dernier aux mains des policiers et des agents de sécurité de la société de plantations de palmier à huile PHC/KKM.
- RIAO-RDC et GRAIN
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30 April 2021
Monsieur Manu Efolafola a été jeté dans le fleuve Congo sous menotte par les policiers et gardes industrielles de la société de plantations d'huile de palme PHC FERONIA/KKM en RD Congo.
Outrage over a mass displacement for a dairy farm has seized the national conversation in Zimbabwe, where it is impossible to talk about land without interrogating the legacy of colonialism and the present reality of anti-Blackness
A first €20m has already been invested in olive orchards in Portugal, with possible investments in Danish organic vegetable farming, American potatoes, barley and wheat as well as kiwi fruit in New Zealand.
MDC Alliance VP Tendai Biti refutes rumours that a lucerne grass project, which is evicting people from their lands in Chilonga and is backed by the Scandinavian private equity firm Spear Capital, was stopped.
- Zimbabwe Mail
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02 April 2021
Villagers in Chilonga in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province are being kicked off their land, paving way for growing lucerne grass
- Anadolu Agency
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17 Mar 2021
A group of Civil society groups in Zimbabwe has told the government to immediately withdraw the Statutory Instrument that legalises the eviction of Chilonga people in Chiredzi to grow feed for a dairy company.
One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.
- RIAO-RDC
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26 February 2021
This study examines whether the ten largest Dutch pension funds have investments in companies involved in land rights violations and if they are taking concrete steps to prevent and mitigate land rights violations.
- Dutch Fair Pension Guide
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24 February 2021