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With very low interest rates having taken root across asset classes and investors abiding in their hunt for higher yields, the world’s largest manager of global farmland, Nuveen, says the season may be ripe for a strategic allocation to the $2.3 trillion market for U.S. farm real estate.

One of Quebec’s largest private investors thinks he has found the perfect investment vehicles to make up for sagging bond returns: milk, almonds and maple syrup.

The Dutch newspaper Trouw identified at least seven projects that FMO funded in which the companies involved were connected to murder, intimidation, environmental damage, arbitrary arrests and land grabbing.

Greenpeace Afrique alerte sur des violations de droits humains dans un conflit forestier opposant la communauté Yalifombo et la société Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC) appartenant à la firme canadienne Feronia Inc dans la province de la Tshopo.

Au sein du producteur d’huile de palme, c’est désormais le Belge d’origine congolaise Frank Braeken, président du conseil d’administration depuis août 2016, ancien d’Unilever, qui est en première ligne.

Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board has made another move to deepen its presence in Australian agriculture, taking full ownership of the largest irrigated farmer in Australia.

Canadian fund manager PSP Investments, a public service pension fund, has put in an offer for Australia's Webster farms, including their water entitlements, that values the diversified agribusiness at $854 million

Le RIAO-RDC appel au respect de l'évolution de la médiation et sollicite l'implication des tous pour contraindre la PHC/Feronia à mettre fin à ses actions provocatrices et violences contre les propriétaires terriers qui revendiquent leurs droits

Independent investigators to explore alleged involvement of security guard for palm oil company supported by CDC

Le 18 septembre 2019, Mombulu Boyama Alphonse a été arrêté à Yangoma, puis détenu au poste de police de Lokutu à la suite d'une plainte déposée contre lui par le Procureur général de la province de la Tshopo. La plainte est liée à une manifestation des villageois contre Plantation Huilerie du Congo (PHC-FERONIA).

Front Line Defenders launches urgent appeal over attacks against staff of the Congolese organisation RIAO-DRC and community leaders involved in land conflict with PHC-FERONIA.

Feronia Inc. announces that its operating subsidiary, Plantations et Huileries du Congo, did not make its scheduled semi-annual principal and interest payment under its secured term debt facility with a syndicate of European Development Finance Institutions.