The INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II, which invests in forest and land in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern EU countries, has completed a transaction to acquire 1184 hectares in Latvia through its subsidiary Zemvalde Forest SIA, including 635 ha of forest and the rest is agricultural and other land.
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
From Sierra Leone to Nigeria, through Cameroon, Guinea and Ivory Coast, communities living near the industrial palm oil and rubber plantations of Socfin/Bolloré are fighting for their rights and against repression.
The dismissal of a petition signed by 1,475 community members objecting to the certification of Socfin Agricultural Company by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil is an attempt to silence and criminalize opposition to the operation of SOCFIN in Sierra Leone
Land for Life Initiative, a civil society organization that advocates land rights, has issued a press statement calling on government to intervene and settle the land dispute between members of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC).
Phatisa, together with a consortium of development finance institutions, has acquired a significant minority stake in South African-based fruit producer and exporter, Lona Group.
The companies that sell oil palm to major firms like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's and Mondelēz are depriving indigenous communities of potentially millions of dollars of income, a joint BBC investigation has found.
The multi-million dollar project would require approximately 600 acres of land, create dozens of jobs and see the importation of 500 pregnant heifers to supply the milk production.
A satellite image shows that 300 hectares of forest have been cleared by two oil palm companies in Sorong Regency, Papua. The two companies are owned by the CEO of First Resources.
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in
Press Statement on the disagreement between members of the Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) and Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC) in relation to the RSPO Certification, the counter-report of the Pujehun District Multi-stakeholder Platform (DMSP) and the position of Land for Life Consortium
In April 2022, Socfin’s Swiss subsidiary Socfinco FR announced it will stop providing managerial assistance to the state-owned Guinean rubber and oil palm company Soguipah by the end of 2022. A commentary.