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Malawi: Conforzi to invest K8.2bn in PPP venture
- The Nation
- 27 May 2022
Conforzi Plantation Limited has unveiled plans to invest $10 million in a 5,000 hectare irrigation scheme under Public Private Partnership arrangement to grow high-value crops.
INVL fund that invests in forest and land acquires 1184 ha in Latvia
- Invalda
- 26 May 2022
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.
Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
- Blended Finance Project
- 26 May 2022
Interview with Devlin Kuyek, GRAIN and Geoffrey Wokulira Ssebaggala, Witness Radio Uganda
Socfin/Bolloré plantations: rising profits, ongoing repression
- ReAct et al.
- 25 May 2022
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.
MALOA’s petition objecting to the RSPO certification of SOCFIN is not unfounded
- Green Scenery
- 24 May 2022
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
CSO calls on govt. to intervene in Malen, Socfin land dispute
- Concord Times
- 24 May 2022
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 and DFIs co-invest in Lona Group
- Africa Global Funds
- 23 May 2022
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.
Palm oil firms depriving tribes of millions of dollars
- BBC
- 23 May 2022
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.
DDL eyeing location in Moblissa for dairy farm operations
- Guyana Chronicle
- 22 May 2022
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.
Oil palm companies are clearing forests in Sorong Regency
- Yayasan Pusaka
- 21 May 2022
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.
Scotland’s billionaires are turning climate change into a trophy game
- The Atlantic
- 20 May 2022
A net-zero land rush is sweeping the country, and both locals and wealthy “green lairds” are trying to buy in
Discussing the Malen situation
- Land for Life
- 18 May 2022
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