The accusation from Salala Rubber Corporation's affected communities comes as the IFC stands accused of ignoring past complaints against the corporation, which include land grabs, water pollution, and harassment.
- Liberian Observer
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04 July 2023
The Ministry of Agriculture had signed over 500,000 acres of land for the implementation of the Land Commercialisation Initiative (LCI) in Kenya
Cette démarche s’inscrit dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de « l’Initiative de commercialisation des terres » (LCI) en coopération avec la Société financière internationale (SFI)
- Agence Ecofin
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06 June 2023
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
Un projet de la Banque mondiale à Madagascar va promouvoir la propriété privée des terres agricoles pour aider à nourrir l'île de La Réunion
- Témoignages
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07 December 2022
Compagnie Fruitier in Ghana hopes that issues of land allocation to local farmers would be expedited to avoid the problem of encroachment on lands already allocated.
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber Corporation (Socfin group) and the Liberian government.
- Daily Observer
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20 October 2022
Zambia plans on attracting overseas investment in export agriculture by opening up 100,000 ha and by using a $300 million World Bank loan to improve roads, electricity and dams.
Organisations call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty
- Signatories
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13 October 2022
Des organisations demandent l’arrêt du financement par la SFI des projets d’agrobusiness industriel qui sapent les systèmes alimentaires agroécologiques diversifiés sur lesquels repose la souveraineté alimentaire.
- Signataires
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13 October 2022
Organizaciones solicitan que se detenga la financiación de la CFI a los agronegocios industriales que socavan los sistemas alimentarios diversificados y agroecológicos que fortalecen la soberanía alimentaria.
- Firmantes
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13 October 2022
The partnership is expected to remove bureaucratic obstacles that hinder easy access to lands for agricultural and industrial investments.
- BusinessDay
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21 September 2022