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Belfius: huile de palme, mineurs exploités et pollution dans un fonds durable
- RTBF
- 02 May 2020
Emmanuel Morimont, journaliste au RTBF, raconte l'histoire de son enquête sur la Socapalm au Cameroun et l'impact qu'il a eu sur la banque Belfius
Communiqué de presse de la Socapalm
- Socapalm
- 01 May 2020
En réponse à l'émission #Investigation de la RTBF du 29 avril 2020
‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives
- Mongabay
- 01 May 2020
In the Brazilian Cerrado, on the nation’s agricultural frontier, rapid deforestation by expanding agribusiness, depletion of water resources, and an unsympathetic government are further complicating the resolution of the long-time struggle over land rights.
15 minutes with .... the founders of Perita Capital Management
- GAI
- 01 May 2020
Boston-based Peritia Capital Management invests in hard assets or agribusiness companies via debt, equity, or joint-venture structures.
Legalização do grande roubo de terras públicas no Brasil: agronegócio, desmatamento e o caldeirão de futuras pandemias
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2020
Esta ampliação da apropriação privada sobre os espaços públicos de proteção socioambiental pode intensificar ainda mais a vulnerabilidade social diante de epidemias e intensificar crises sanitárias.
Russia's VTB finds partners for growth of grain business
- Reuters
- 30 April 2020
The largest operator of Russia’s grain export infrastructure and a major grain trader sells stakes to Agronova, which develops farm projects in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, and the Marathon Group financial company
FirstFarms A/S signs Head of Terms about sale of 1,675 hectares of land in West Romania
- First Farms
- 30 April 2020
The Danish company's West Romania operations constitute 5 percent of FirstFarms’ total turnover and the company says it has not delivered satisfactory operating results the latest years.
L’impact nocif du secteur de l’huile de palme une fois de plus dévoilé, dans une investigation sur des investissements - soit disant - “éthiques”
- FIAN Belgium
- 30 April 2020
Salaires en-dessous du minimum légal, pollution de cours d’eau, travail d’enfants dans les plantations. Voici quelques-unes des révélations, incriminant le groupe SOCFIN, divulguées dans l’émission #Investigation
Olam secures a US$176 million term loan from IFC and JICA
- Olam
- 30 April 2020
The funds will be used for the procurement of specific agri-commodities from smallholder farmers in Vietnam, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Uganda as well as the expansion of Olam’s cocoa processing facility in Indonesia.
Banques : sur les routes cachées de notre argent
- RTBF
- 29 April 2020
Enquête de la télévision belge sur les plantations Socfin au Cameroun
We demand justice and safety for workers on Socfin’s rubber/oil palm plantations during the Covid-19 pandemic
- ARD et al
- 29 April 2020
Letter from African community organisations to SOCFIN regarding the unsafe conditions for plantation workers and neighbouring communities during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Zelensky enacts law on farmland sale in Ukraine from July 2021
- UNIAN
- 29 April 2020
The law allows for the phasing in of private farmland sales in Ukraine