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Congolese businessman, Katumbi, embraces agriculture
- Africa News
- 26 February 2022
DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 thousand hectares of maize fields, a staple food of the Congolese people.
Bashe invites agricultural investors to Tanzania
- Daily News
- 26 February 2022
Speaking at Dubai Expo 2020, Tanzania's Minister for Agriculture says his government will accord full support to investors because Tanzania has a large and fertile land for agricultural investment.
Uganda: 30,000 evicted locals cry to govt for compensation
- Monitor
- 25 February 2022
More than 30,000 residents, who were evicted from their land in Kiryandongo District by multinational companies, have cried out to the government to expedite the process of their compensation and resettlement
Development finance institutions must include in investments, ‘right to remedy’
- UN
- 24 February 2022
A new report by the UN Human Rights Office gives guidance to development finance institutions to ensure that the projects they finance do not harm people, and that effective remedy is readily available for any potential victims.
Canadian pension fund invests in ex-plantation privatizing Hawaii’s water
- The Breach
- 23 February 2022
Canadian fund pours $600 million into farming operation in Maui that threatens water supplies vital to Indigenous farmers
European DFIs sell debt in Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC)
- CDC
- 22 February 2022
BIO of Belgium, CDC of the UK, DEG of Germany and FMO from the Netherlands announce that they will cease to be Lenders to PHC, the operating company of three longstanding palm oil plantations in the DR Congo.
Tova Farms raises $1MM in seed funding for mysterious avocado deal
- Blue Book
- 21 February 2022
Tova Farms, a commercial agricultural firm specializing in avocado owns over 5000 acres of avocado farmland in Tanzania, and has partnership options with importers across 6 countries in Europe.
The Comb - Climate of danger: Exile
- BBC
- 20 February 2022
Death threats and exile: Local environmental defenders are the front line of the climate crisis - protecting the land they live on when it’s threatened by powerful business interests.
Nigeria: Okomu Oil reports more attacks on company, blames ‘terrorists’
- Premium Times
- 19 February 2022
The oil palm plantation company has been embroiled in disputes over land ownership and its use of military forces for the protection of its plantations and environs.
African and European agriculture needs protection
- Euractiv
- 17 February 2022
In the lead up to the sixth European Union – African Union Summit, small, rural farmers from umbrella organisations in Africa and Europe are calling for coherent policies that protect small-scale African and European agriculture.
72,000 people call on the United Nations to end business with the Bolloré Group
- Oakland Institute
- 14 February 2022
The Bolloré Group is involved in rubber and oil palm plantations through its 39.4 percent shareholdings of SOCFIN, which controls close to 400,000 hectares of concessions for plantations in Asia and Africa.
Unmasking Sarai Group, vicious wolves In sheep skin
- Soko Directory
- 14 February 2022
Should Kenyans allow people to run Mumias Sugar who are accused of mass eviction by their sugarcane plantation companies in neighbouring Uganda?