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En RDC, un conflit oppose depuis des années une firme canadienne financée par des agences de développement à des communautés villageoises à propos de palmeraies qu’elle aurait accaparées.

Agencias de desarrollo de Estados Unidos y Europa financian una nueva ola de colonialismo en la RDC.

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

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).

A US government agency, a World Bank Group member and a private equity fund plan to help half a million small-scale farmers boost yields and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US government’s development finance institution, approved Wednesday a $150 mln financial package that will go to Citadel Capital, a regional private equity firm that just completed its first wheat harvest in Sudan.

UK-based SilverStreet Capital has received about $198 million in commitments to its Africa-focused fund from the Danish pension fund Pensionskassernes Administration (PKA) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation pours $150 million into fund targeting farmland acquisitions in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia

African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters