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God's will or ecological disaster? Mennonite deforestation in Mexico
- Reuters
- 12 July 2022
Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula
Le palmier du sang de PHC à Lokutu
- L'Avenir
- 07 July 2022
On se croirait en train de suivre un film d’horreur. Le dimanche 26 juin 2022, une équipe des gardes industriels, G4S et la police est descendus à la division Bolembo où elle constante qu’une quantité de régimes et fruits de tâches de noix furent déplacés.
Landgrabbing in Deutschland
- Deutschlandfunkkultur
- 29 June 2022
Auch in Deutschland ist Ackerland längst zum Spekulationsobjekt geworden. Die steigenden Bodenpreise sorgen dafür, dass Bauern kaum ein Auskommen haben. Ein Skandal, findet die Autorin Annette Jensen, und fordert eine radikale Bodenreform.
Autosuffisance alimentaire en RDC : et si George Forrest remportait son pari fou ?
- Financial Afrik
- 28 April 2022
George Forrest, qui possède déjà un cheptel de 30 000 bovins qui paissent sur 450 000 hectares en RDC, vient de créer un holding qui inclut 3000 hectares de cultures, une biscuiterie et des activités de transformation et de commercialisation de viande.
Les banques de développement se retirent sans vergogne d’un accaparement colonial des terres au Congo
- Collective statement
- 28 February 2022
Trente organisations demandent aux gouvernements responsables de la supervision des banques de développement de prendre des mesures pour réparer les préjudices causés aux communautés par leur investissement dans PHC/Feronia.
Development banks make shameless exit from a colonial land grab in the Congo
- Collective statement
- 28 February 2022
Thirty CSOs call on the governments responsible for overseeing the development banks to take action to redress the harms caused to the communities from their investment oil palm plantation company PHC/Feronia.
European DFIs sell debt in Plantations et Huileries du Congo SA (PHC)
- CDC
- 22 February 2022
BIO of Belgium, CDC of the UK, DEG of Germany and FMO from the Netherlands announce that they will cease to be Lenders to PHC, the operating company of three longstanding palm oil plantations in the DR Congo.
DRC: An abusive palm oil business is shaming the European development banks
- InfoCongo
- 23 December 2021
The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.
Foreign farmland ownership in the United States
- CRS
- 18 November 2021
New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).
Palm oil: new violence against local communities in the Congo
- Rainforest Rescue
- 12 October 2021
The conflict between the communities of Bolanga and Yambienenne and the palm oil company PHC continues to escalate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kuramo Capital Management embroiled in a legal battle over ownership of PHC Oil palm plantations in the DRC
- Oakland Institute
- 22 June 2021
After acquiring majority ownership in the PHC plantations from European development banks in 2020, former partners have turned on each other with legal action underway across four jurisdictions for control of the company, valued at US$100 million.
The untold story of Feronia Inc's failed rice operations in the DR Congo
- GRAIN
- 18 May 2021
New information indicates that Feronia's $15 million rice operations were taken over by a politically connected Belgian-Congolese businessman when they mysteriously vanished from the company's books in 2017.

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