The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
Les Chambres fédérales en Suisse ont clos la révision de la loi sur l’imposition des carburants en adoptant un durcissement des critères sociaux et écologiques en matière de carburant d’origine végétale.
On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.
- Donor Platform
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16 January 2014
Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust backed by Swiss, Danish and US fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.
- Financial Review
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15 November 2013
Le gouvernement suisse appuie la mise en place des guichets fonciers au Burundi comme moyen de faire face à l'accaparement de terres
Pour M. Ritter, la solution de l'auto-approvisionnement alimentaire réside dans la conclusion d'accords avec des pays qui disposent de beaucoup de terres cultivables et auprès desquels la Suisse pourrait s'approvisionner en cas de crise.
Lonrho Plc, which operates farms and claims land concessions in several African countries, said it received a £174.5 million buyout offer from a company controlled by Swiss billionaire Thomas Schmidheiny and investor Rainer-Marc Frey.
This roundtable on conflict sensitive water and land management assembled representatives of Swiss civil society and state agencies to debate the implications of land acquisition on their work as well as their responses.
La Plateforme "agrocarburants" est consternée par la certification accordée à l'entreprise genevoise Addax Bioenergy par la Table ronde sur les biocarburants durables (RSB).
- Pain pour le prochain
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15 Mar 2013
On 2 March, officials of Swiss company Addax Bioenergy went to install pegs on a large stretch of boli land without reference to the owners of the land and in contrast with the lease agreement which says the company shall only concentrate on the upland.
Alors que 13 000 personnes vivraient sur les terres allouées à Addax Bioenergy, le réseau Silnorf demande que « le droit à la sécurité alimentaire soit effectivement mis en œuvre en Sierra Leone ».
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.