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An agribusiness company supported by the governments of the UK, US and the Netherlands is pushing ahead with a land grab that will displace thousands of families in Uganda.

A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed company Equatorial Palm Oil violated local townspeople’s right to their land in Liberia and are pushing them further into poverty.

Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations that could supply multinational firms’ thirst for palm oil and put the wealth into the community, says SDI

With the aim of improving its financial resources, management is in on-going discussions with its lenders and major shareholders and is reviewing various short and long term financial alternatives.

Bien que HRW mette directement en cause la responsabilité des entreprises Feronia et PHC, ce sont bien les banques de développement européennes qui financent les entreprises qui sont principalement la cible de ce rapport.

Feronia, a company 38% owned by the UK government’s development bank, has been accused of a series of environmental and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

NGOs call on the CDC Group and all the development banks involved in the Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations to publicly issue a clear statement of support for the mediation process and to ensure the security of participating community members.

The UK development bank has been accused of failing to protect workers from exposure to dangerous pesticides and paying “extreme poverty” wages on palm oil plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Quatre banques de développement européennes financent actuellement une entreprise d’huile de palme en République démocratique du Congo (Feronia) qui viole les droits des travailleurs et rejette des déchets non traités, a déclaré Human Rights Watch dans un rapport publié aujourd’hui.

The CDC Group says that it cannot release the findings of its investigation at this time but announces that the investigation found no evidence of a link between the homicide and Feronia.

Quatre banques européennes de développement, dont la société publique belge Bio, financent une entreprise produisant de l’huile de palme en République démocratique du Congo qui viole les droits des travailleurs et rejette des déchets non traités, a déclaré l’organisation de défense des droits de l’homme Human Rights Watch

Kilombero Plantations Limited in Tanzania joins a long list of failed big agriculture projects in Africa in recent years, including Agrisol and Sun Biofuels in Tanzania; Karuturi in Kenya and Ethiopia; Nile Trading in South Sudan; Senhuile in Senegal, and Bukanga Lonzo in the Democratic Republic of Congo