Varias prominentes agencias e instituciones de financiamiento para el desarrollo están brindando su apoyo a la compañía de agronegocios canadiense Feronia, acusada de acaparamiento de tierras y abusos de derechos humanos.
Plusieurs grandes institutions financières de développement financent actuellement une société agroalimentaire canadienne accusée d’accaparement des terres et de violations des droits humains
- RIAO-RDC | GRAIN
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02 June 2015
Several prominent development finance institutions are funding Feronia, a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
- RIAO-RDC | GRAIN
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02 June 2015
De cómo empresas acaparadoras de tierras son rescatadas por fondos públicos de cooperación al desarrollo.
- Soberanía Alimentaria
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01 June 2015
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2014
"Agribusiness is a priority sector for CDC and this facility is an important step in Feronia's long-term financing."
- Marketwired
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23 January 2015
EIA organise un atelier pour renforcer les capacités de la société civile, des leaders des communautés et des peuples autochtones pour mieux appréhender les implications du développement du palmier à huile.
- Environmental Investigation Agency
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06 January 2015
A regional workshop in mid-December brought Civil Society Organizations, local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin together to address the emerging threat of palm oil development in the region.
- Environmental Investigation Agency
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06 January 2015
Organisations from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo, agree to a "joint position" on the expansion of palm oil in the region.
Scrutiny of Feronia's oil palm project shows one more example of many that follow a wave of foreign investment in African farmland, leading to land grabs and conflicts.
One of Africa’s largest palm oil investors announces plans to improve social infrastructure, a week after a Reuters investigation found that its poorly paid plantation workers were living in dilapidated homes with poor social services.
Development funds from European governments helped to rescue a Canadian company that pays workers as little as $1/day to toil on some of Africa's largest palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
