La société PHC a mené des expéditions punitives contres certains leaders communautaires après la tenue d'une march pacifique qui avait dénoncer l'accaparement des terres pour les plantations de palmiers à huile.
Many oil palm plantations’ concessions in West and Central Africa were built on lands stolen from communities during colonial occupations. This is the case in the DRC, where food company Unilever began its palm oil empire. Today, these plantations are still sites of ongoing poverty and violence.
Avec cette acquisition, l’entreprise disposera désormais d’un troupeau de bovins de près de 56 000 têtes sur un territoire total de 73 000 hectares.
Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.
A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.
PHC wishes to assure those local communities with whom it is engaged that it will continue all mediation processes with local communities commenced prior to the transaction.
The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.
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.
DRC businessman and party leader Moïse Katumbi has invested in 15 thousand hectares of maize fields, a staple food of the Congolese people.
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.
As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 ha of their ancestral land are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, a new report exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations in the DR Congo.
