Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.
The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.
- InfoCongo
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23 December 2021
Some 145 Cameroonians have asked the French courts to force the Bolloré group to provide documents to establish its links with the Cameroonian Company of Oil Palm Plantations (Socapalm) that they accuse of violating their rights.
- La Provence
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30 November 2021
Le Belge Hubert Fabri, qui contrôle la Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin) et réside à Fribourg, figure au rang 204.
Certified by the RSPO in early 2020, Okomu’s motto is “responsible tropical agriculture.” But over the past decade, the company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of Nigerian soldiers as a de facto security force for its plantations.
- Mongabay
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22 November 2021
Zoom sur l'entreprise belge SIAT
86 % des citoyens interrogés par le CNCD-11.11.11 et European Coalition for Corporate Justice sont d’accord avec l’idée que les entreprises devraient être légalement obligées de s’assurer qu’elles ne sont pas impliquées dans des violations des droits humains telles que le travail forcé ou l’accaparement de terres.
La production d'éthanol à base de canne à sucre dans le nord du Pérou destinée au marché du transport européen - et belge - entraîne accaparemment de terres et de ressources en eau et une pollution atmosphérique nocive pour les habitants de la région.
EU policies are fueling land and water grabbing, air pollution, climate change vulnerabilities, food insecurity and social unrest in the Chira Valley.
- Oxfam Belgique
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21 September 2021
After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.
- Oakland Institute
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22 June 2021
Bienvenue aux « Terres de Socapalm » : six palmeraies sont réparties sur ce territoire de 58 000 hectares au sud-ouest du Cameroun – ce qui représente un tiers de la superficie de la province d’Utrecht.
- De Volkskrant
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25 May 2021
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.