The Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the Murang’a County Assembly to block any plans to renew the land leases held by Kakuzi until claims on historical land injustices are resolved.
- The Standard
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15 February 2021
British colonial plantation company producing food for UK supermarkets settles claims with victims of horrific abuses in Kenya - rape, murder and beatings - but refuses to address the issue of land.
The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
Ce prêt à l’agribusiness, marqué par un conflit terrien violent, questionne en profondeur la politique de développement voulue par BIO et l’état belge.
A new report by an alliance of civil society organisations chronicles one of the most scandalous failures of development bank investment in agriculture.
- RIAO-RDC et al.
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28 January 2021
Un nouveau rapport d'une alliance d'organisations de la société civile dévoile l'un des échecs les plus scandaleux des investissements des banques de développement dans l'agriculture.
- RIAO et al
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28 January 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
UK company Tate & Lyle has been accused of betraying 200 families in Cambodia who have fought for years to secure compensation for land they say was taken from them to make way for a sugar plantation.
- The Guardian
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02 January 2021
A failed palm oil enterprise on disputed land in the Democratic Republic of Congo where there has been a record of human rights conflicts has blown more than $76 million of British aid.
- The Times
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02 January 2021
Kenya's Murang'a county is home to Kakuzi, the food producer and exporter that occupies some 15,904 ha. Land ownership in this fertile area is out of reach for many who consider it their ancestral home.
Foreign ownership of farmland in some states has surged to as high as 25 per cent as China maintains its position as Australia's most powerful foreign investor.
- Daily Mail
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14 December 2020