New report reveals finance firm TIAA initiated unprecedented global farmland investments under CEO Roger Ferguson Jr., while undermining human rights standards.
El 20 de mayo de 2020, la comunidad Ijaw-Gbene, al sur de Nigeria, se quemó complentamente. Testigos oculares acusan a las fuerzas de seguridad de la empresa Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc (OOPC) de tener responsabilidad en el incendio, junto con miembros del ejército.
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
Menacées par l’insécurité alimentaire de suite du manque des terres, les communautés ne savent plus à quel saint se vouer.
D’un coût de 237 milliards de FCFA, le projet d’exploitation de 60 000 hectares de terres, continue de rencontrer l’opposition des organisations de protection de l’environnement et des populations.
L’inspecteur général des Finances a annoncé, lors d’une conférence de presse à Kinshasa, mercredi, la disparition de 205 millions de dollars qui avaient été décaissés par l’Etat pour le parc agro-industriel de Bukanga Lonzo (Kwango), sous Joseph Kabila.
Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc
El discurso del desarrollo continúa cobrando fuerza a pesar de su rol decisivo en la crisis actual así como de los millones de medios de vida que ha destruido con desplazamientos y despojo.
The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the allocation of over 40,000 hectares of land to six firms for oil palm cultivation.
University of Iowa faculty members write that major collegiate employee retirement savings manager must divest from socially irresponsible farming pension fund investments and be transparent in doing so.
The latest regulation issued by the Environment and Forestry Ministry that allows forests to be converted into farmland to support the government’s food estate program has sparked concerns of potential massive deforestation, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).
Inclusive Development International, Equitable Cambodia and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) issue a joint statement to the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights highlights a decade-long struggle by displaced Cambodian communities against Asia’s largest sugar company Mitr Pohl
Oil palm growing in Buvuma district has faced slow progress due to irregularities raised by residents including delayed compensations and underpayments that discouraged Bidco Uganda to occupy its nucleus estate.
Sahel Capital’s portfolio companies in Africa have cumulative 16,000 hectares of commercial farmland and aggregate additional crop from over 9,000 smallholder farmers.
