Mirova adds Coca-Cola and the foreign affairs ministries of the UK and Canada as investors in its fund targeted at "low-carbon" agricultural and forestry projects
The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.
NGOs say a development bank mediation process is coercing communities into foregoing their rights to their territories and accepting a palm oil company's occupation of their lands without the time, resources, security and legal support required to adequately defend their interests.
Des ONG affirment qu'un processus de médiation des banques de développement allemande et néerlandaise contraint des communautés à renoncer à leurs droits fonciers et à accepter l'occupation continue de leurs terres par une société de huile de palme, sans avoir eu le temps, les ressources, la sécurité et le soutien juridique nécessaires pour défendre leurs intérêts.
Answers from the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation to questions from member Futselaar (SP) about the withdrawal by the Dutch development bank FMO of Plantations et Huileries du Congo.
A mediation process is unlikely to address long-lasting tensions and tenure issues that arise when ‘development’ projects on public lands take over large tracts of ancestral land
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.
Investigation into the controversial palm oil sector in Liberia, the role of Dutch finance and impacts on local communities
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.
One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.
A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.
