Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests.
The Ugandan Government has released a statement to disprove allegations levelled against Kenya’s Bidco Oil Company over land.
- Capital FM
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05 August 2015
As land grabs by firms linked to multinationals drive small-holder farmers out of business, a group behind a February bid for compensation by 100 farmers says rights violations and environmental degradation are also at stake.
La Banque mondiale n’a pas pris de mesures suffisantes pour empêcher ou dissuader les gouvernements d’intimider les personnes critiques à l’égard des projets financés par la Banque, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui.
- Human Rights Watch
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22 June 2015
European banks and investors are a major source of finance for large-scale destructive agriculture; forestry; and pulp and paper projects.
Those keen to see an end to years of environmental destruction and see genuine change in the behavior of major palm oil producers and suppliers feel there is still a lot to be mistrusting of.
Land grabs in Africa are helping to perpetuate economic inequalities similar to the colonial era economic imbalances.
Farmers evicted to make way for project backed by UN's IFAD say they have received little compensation. They're taking the industrial palm oil producers to court.
UN Agency IFAD is robbing poor farmers and farming communities of their land and livelihoods, leaving them destitute, and handing over their wealth for plunder by foreign corporations and profiteering financiers.
- The Ecologist
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19 February 2015
Amatheon Agri, a Berlin based agribusiness and farming company, is set to embark on a countrywide expansion of grain production in Zimbabawe after a successful pilot maize farming project
- The Herald
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12 February 2015
Amatheon’s Ugandan plans comprise rainfed growing of crops such as maize, soya beans, sunflower, rice and sorghum, and it is actively looking into livestock production.
- Red Pepper
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05 January 2015
Interview with Josh Maiyo of VU University Amsterdam about foreign investments in agriculture and land in Uganda.
- Africa Works!
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13 November 2014
