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
Mennonites are linked to expanding farmland acquisition and deforestation - not always with the right paperwork - in the Yucatan Peninsula
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The PHC oil palm plantations provide 100 years of lessons about the failures of agricultural, financial and governance systems in a globalized world.
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%).
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.
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.
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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