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André Arpaid, un oligarque pro-PHTK, a reçu plus de 8 600 hectares de terres agricoles pour la création de la zone franche agro-industrielle de Savane Diane, qui produira l’édulcorant stévia pour la transnationale Coca Cola.

Alors que les efforts de la communauté pour récupérer 100 000 hectares de leurs terres ancestrales, initialement saisies il y a plus d'un siècle pour des plantations de palmiers à huile, sont confrontés à une répression violente, des arrestations illégales et des meurtres, un nouveau rapport de l'Oakland Institute dévoile les noms des investisseurs finançant les plantations en RDC.

AcreTrader is providing easy access for individuals and institutions to invest in farmland, allowing individuals to purchase shares of farmland in a matter of minutes online.

The deal size reflects the growing demand for farmland investments, as investors seek alternative assets amid heightened market volatility, fears of inflation, an emphasis on sustainability, and more.

One of those attacked by the company’s security guards died shortly after being badly beaten, tortured and detained.

The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.

Le président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu) dénonce les récentes arrestations et violences policières suite aux protestations pacifiques contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC.

President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.

The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.

RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.

Since evictions started in 2017, communities have faced acts of violence meted against them by multinational companies from sexual violence against women, torture, beating, kidnap to illegal arrest and detention.

Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land, including lands acquired by US teachers’ pension fund TIAA.