Norway’s US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has pulled out of more than 33 palm oil companies over deforestation risks over the last seven years
US Supreme Court rules that the World Bank's IFC can be sued. This may create new legal liability for development finance institutions whose funding harms local communities.
The farm currently has 800 hectares planted with maize, 700 more than were planted in 2018 in an experimental phase, and the project’s management intends to reach production of 58,000 tonnes by 2021.
The women of Malen, Sierra Leone are demanding that the lands taken from them by SOCFIN be returned to them so they can go back to their farms for their own agricultural activities and be able to take care of their families.
As refugees began to trickle back, many found their land had been taken for parks, military use or leased to palm oil concessions and rubber plantations. From 2011 to 2016, about 1.9 million acres of land across Myanmar were allocated for agricultural concessions including rubber and palm oil.
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired Broetje Orchards, one of the largest privately-owned apple orchard operations in the U.S.
« La souveraineté sur le foncier c’est la souveraineté sur notre alimentation », rappelle le ministre français chargé des relations avec le Parlement
The Prince said his country currently has agriculture cooperation agreements with several other African countries, and is now keen on ensuring that Liberia becomes part of such pacts.
Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to a new report from ODI.
Recent reports have shed light on land rights violations and other abuses allegedly committed by SOCFIN oil palm and rubber plantations against local communities in Africa.
L’entreprise qui a signé en 2009 un contrat de concession de 63 ans portant sur 220 000 ha, examinerait actuellement un désengagement de ses opérations dans l’oléagineux et le caoutchouc, rapporte Reuters.
New report alleges that residents of Grand Bassa, Margibi and Bong Counties are being harmed by activities of Salala Rubber Corporation and Liberia Agricultural Company.
