CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO announce an $82 million joint commitment to Phatisa Food Fund 2 to invest in agribusiness across Sub-Saharan Africa.
- FinDev Canada
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04 February 2021
CDC Group, Norfund, Finnfund, FinDev Canada and BIO invest in Phatisa's second African agribusiness fund, even as Phatisa's first DFI-supported fund, the African Agriculture Fund, remains embroiled in land conflicts.
- FinDev Canada
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04 February 2021
Norfund reports losses of over $23 million on its investments in the UK company Agrica and its large-scale rice plantation in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania.
- Bistandsaktuelt
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08 January 2021
&Green Fund, with backing from the Norwegian government and Unilever, makes its first investment in a Brazilian farming company that grows soybeans and grains and raises cattle on 50,000 hectares in Mato Grosso.
Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.
A totalitarian approach to conservation that led to increased inequity, undermining of democracy, and violent evictions
- REDD Monitor
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06 April 2019
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
The cases of Norwegian development cooperation covered in the report include the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania and the Agrica – Kilombero Plantation Ltd. rice farm in Tanzania
New webdocumentary about land grabbing in the Nacala Corridor in Mozambique
- Divergente
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10 August 2018
The banana plantation in Monapo, Nampula, that was supposed to be a model for foreign farm investment and was promoted by Norfund, has finally gone bankrupt, at huge cost to Mozambique.
- Mozambique News
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26 Mar 2018
This study highlights the role of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in possible land grabs and questionable forestry projects in Africa.
FT correspondents report on the global race for land from Ethiopia, Myanmar and Indonesia.
- Financial Times
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01 Mar 2016