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Sime Darby Plantation completes sale of Liberia operations
- The Star
- 24 January 2020
Sime Darby has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc through completion of its sale to the Liberian company Mano Palm Oil Industries Ltd.
TIAA’s farmland funds linked to fires, conflicts and legacy deforestation risks in Brazil
- CRR
- 23 January 2020
CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.
Charity calls on UK to prosecute British companies that violate human R rights in Liberia
- FrontPageAfrica
- 23 January 2020
A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed company Equatorial Palm Oil violated local townspeople’s right to their land in Liberia and are pushing them further into poverty.
Polémique autour de l’exploitation de 60 000 Ha de terrain par les emiratis
- Madagascar Tribune
- 22 January 2020
La juriste malgache Arlette Ramaroson indique que dans le projet Daewoo, il n’y a pas encore eu de signature d’accord, mais cette fois-ci, l’accord est déjà fait sans consultation au préalable des habitants locaux.
HMC investment in Westfalia Fruit International to drive global expansion for avocados
- GAI
- 21 January 2020
WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, with operations in all major growing regions including southern Africa, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the state of California.
Agribusiness as usual: Agricultural technology and the Israeli occupation
- Who Profits
- 21 January 2020
This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms to agriculture in illegal settlements on Palestinian and Syrian lands and examines their role in the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Sime Darby au Liberia, c’est fini !
- Agence Ecofin
- 20 January 2020
Le malaisien Sime Darby a annoncé un accord de vente et achat de sa filiale libérienne, qui sous-exploitait une concession de 220 000 ha, à la Mano Palm Oil Industries Limited pour 1 $ symbolique.
Friends of the Earth groups complaint against ING Group admissible, declares OECD
- Milieudefensie
- 20 January 2020
The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.
Case study: Agrivision- A staple food producer in Zambia
- Norfund
- 20 January 2020
Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.
For-profit investments are not ‘development’
- New Internationalist
- 20 January 2020
The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.
[Madagascar] Food self-sufficiency - Emiratis invest in Lower Mangoky
- L'Express
- 20 January 2020
Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy government to farm 60 000 ha in the Lower Mangoky region of southwest Madagascar, for the local market and for export
[Madagascar] Autosuffisance alimentaire – Les Emiratis investissent au Bas Mangoky
- L'Express
- 20 January 2020
Elite Agro LLC, des Emirats arabes Unis, vient de signer un memorandum avec l'Etat malgache pour exploiter 60 000 ha de surfaces cultivables dans le Bas Mangoky, dans la région Sud-Ouest.