Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc
The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.
The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has approved the allocation of over 40,000 hectares of land to six firms for oil palm cultivation.
University of Iowa faculty members write that major collegiate employee retirement savings manager must divest from socially irresponsible farming pension fund investments and be transparent in doing so.
The latest regulation issued by the Environment and Forestry Ministry that allows forests to be converted into farmland to support the government’s food estate program has sparked concerns of potential massive deforestation, according to the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi).
Inclusive Development International, Equitable Cambodia and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) issue a joint statement to the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights highlights a decade-long struggle by displaced Cambodian communities against Asia’s largest sugar company Mitr Pohl
Oil palm growing in Buvuma district has faced slow progress due to irregularities raised by residents including delayed compensations and underpayments that discouraged Bidco Uganda to occupy its nucleus estate.
Sahel Capital’s portfolio companies in Africa have cumulative 16,000 hectares of commercial farmland and aggregate additional crop from over 9,000 smallholder farmers.
In Ireland, vulture funds and lenders are following a more aggressive strategy since the end of Covid-19 moratorium on forced sales
A search through the World Bank's archives shines a light on why Africa's post-colonial governments failed to dismantle the plantation model and return lands to their people.
"On the other side is Karuturi flower farms - it has also been taken away"
Communities living within the concessions claimed by PHC have long sought to regain control over their lands and have called for negotiations to determine the conditions under which the company may be allowed to continue to operate.
