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.
Même si les communautés congolaises peuvent obtenir gratuitement et perpétuellement des concessions forestières, elles ne sont pas à l’abri de l’accaparement des terres.
The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to lease as much as 640,000 square kilometers of farmland, or more than one-quarter of the central African nation.
La RDC a présenté à Londres, au Global Africa Investment Summit, le projet de Bukanga-Lonzo, un parc agricole de 80 000 ha
- Média Congo
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22 October 2014
La société civile du monde entier se rassemble pour dénoncer les classements Doing Business et Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture de la Banque mondiale.
- Digital Congo
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13 October 2014
Sivasankaran’s land grabbing spree has threatened millions of livelihoods, says report
- Down to Earth
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08 October 2014
GRAIN’s report accuses the Siva Group of land grab in many countries across South America, Africa and Asia
L'irruption dans l'agrobusiness d'un milliardaire indien de l'informatique donne une image inquiétante du rôle actuel de la finance dans l'agriculture
An IT billionaire's foray into agribusiness paints a disturbing picture of today's farmland financiers.
«Nous voulons investir et attirer des investissements vers nos terres fertiles et étendues, et c’est la raison pour laquelle nous accueillons un forum panafricain tel que l’AgriBusiness Forum» explique Jean Chrysostome Vahamwiti Mukesyayira, Ministre de l’Agriculture
