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.
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.
CDC will directly hold 27.5% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Feronia, a large-scale commercial farmland operator in the DRC
- Marketwire
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08 November 2013
Africa is white hot with minerals and land deals in what could be the second scramble for Africa.
Le Fonds pour l'agriculture en afrique (African Agriculture Fund, AAF) va entrer au capital de Feronia, l'ancien Plantations et Huileries du Congo, qui détient et exploite la principale plantation de palmiers à huile en RD Congo.
- Jeune Afrique
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10 December 2012
Feronia Inc. announced that it has entered into a share subscription agreement with the African Agriculture Fund managed by Phatisa Fund Managers Limited
A law meant to breathe new life into agriculture in Democratic Republic of Congo risks scaring off needed foreign investment due to a clause calling for farms to be majority-owned by Congolese, according to investors and other sector players.
Q&A with Bill Dry, CEO of Feronia, the largest agriculture company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with over 107,000 hectares of arable farmlands and plantations.
- Stockhouse
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24 January 2012
Feronia Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.
- Feronia Inc.
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30 November 2011