Local communities hold a press conference today to protest against the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil certificate awarded to Socfin’s subsidiary company SAFACAM in Cameroon on 30 December 2020
As natives continue to resist illegal evictions, multinational companies opt to hire livestock as a new tactic to forcefully evict smallholder farmers from their land.
- Witness Radio
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30 June 2021
New report for Misereor reviewed scientific literature on the microeconomic and social effects of large-scale land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- Politico Online
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30 June 2021
Singapore-based Japfa, through its 75 per cent-owned subsidiary AustAsia Investment Holdings, has agreed to buy two dairy farms in Shandong, China.
- Straits Times
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30 June 2021
An Australian company backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board has purchased a grain farm in Yuna, Australia for about $30 million
The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits
- China Dialogue
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25 June 2021
For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.
- Business and Human Rights Research Centre
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24 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.
- Oakland Institute
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22 June 2021
Located in Kaduna State, the 200-hectare farm, scheduled to open in 2022, will have housing for 400 dairy cows, modern milking parlors and technology, grass lands and living facilities for 25 employees.
- Dairy Reporter
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22 June 2021
Two-thirds of polled Ukrainians are against opening up the country's farmland to foreigners
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek calls for an end to neoliberal agricultural laws and corporate control of the food and agriculture sector, including an end to local and foreign private investments in the dairy and livestock sector.