With vast lands conducive to tree growth, Kirchmayer and ASC Impact believe that Africa is ripe for reforestation initiatives that support mass timber production and other green projects.
Mirova's LDN Fund has raised $208 million from public institutions and private investors and invested in companies like the Swiss company Pamoja which operates nut farms in Kenya and Tanzania
Repórter Brazil also documented cases where Swiss Re had concluded insurance contracts with farms that illegally cultivated indigenous protected areas and used armed violence
Los menonitas, una secta religiosa protestante que se originó en Suiza en el siglo XVI y pregona el apego a la tierra y la actividad agrícola, poseen cinco colonias en Perú con la complacencia o indiferencia de las autoridades.
An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry for carbon credits has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.
Local communities near Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) in Margibi County are seemingly winning a case of ‘land grab’ and ‘gross human rights violations’ brought against SRC; as its parent company, Bollore Group has been blacklisted by Switzerland’s largest public pension funds.
The Swiss association of the largest public pension funds, has decided to exclude shares in the French group Bolloré SE. The exclusion is justified by “potential human rights violations in Liberia, Cambodia and Sierra Leone”.
L'association suisse des plus grandes caisses publiques de retraite a décidé d'exclure les actions du groupe français Bolloré SE "à la suite de violations potentielles des droits humains en Libéria, Cambodge et Sierra Leone".
Pour l’implémentation de ce projet, le groupe suisse sollicite 42 000 hectares de terres agricoles dans le département du Niari
Ausländische Investoren haben Sierra Leones Kleinbauern mit Pachtverträgen über Jahrzehnte Land abgeluchst. Neue Gesetze sollen das nun verhindern.
Foreign investors have been grabbing land from Sierra Leone's small farmers for decades. New laws are now aimed at preventing this.
C'est désormais chose faite : l'appropriation illégitime de terres indigènes par le groupe agricole Socfin au Cambodge est terminée - blanchie en apparence par un processus de médiation plus que douteux
