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Sime Darby Plantation completes sale of Liberia operations
- The Star
- 24 January 2020
Sime Darby has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc through completion of its sale to the Liberian company Mano Palm Oil Industries Ltd.
TIAA’s farmland funds linked to fires, conflicts and legacy deforestation risks in Brazil
- CRR
- 23 January 2020
CRR’s sustainability analysis shows that deforestation and fires have taken place on TIAA’s farmland portfolio in Brazil, enabling negative social impacts on local communities.
Charity calls on UK to prosecute British companies that violate human R rights in Liberia
- FrontPageAfrica
- 23 January 2020
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.
HMC investment in Westfalia Fruit International to drive global expansion for avocados
- GAI
- 21 January 2020
WFI’s estates represent the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, with operations in all major growing regions including southern Africa, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and the state of California.
Agribusiness as usual: Agricultural technology and the Israeli occupation
- Who Profits
- 21 January 2020
This report by Who Profits exposes the contribution of agritech firms to agriculture in illegal settlements on Palestinian and Syrian lands and examines their role in the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Friends of the Earth groups complaint against ING Group admissible, declares OECD
- Milieudefensie
- 20 January 2020
The Dutch National Contact Point for the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today declared a complaint from three Friends of the Earth groups (Milieudefensie (Netherlands), SDI (Liberia) and WALHI (Indonesia)) against Dutch bank ING admissible.ING has been ignoring abuses in the palm oil sector for years.
Case study: Agrivision- A staple food producer in Zambia
- Norfund
- 20 January 2020
Agrivision – a Norfund investee company – is helping to increase national food production by utilising modern farming methods and new technologies.
For-profit investments are not ‘development’
- New Internationalist
- 20 January 2020
The British government is ramping up its policy to divert taxpayers’ money into private hands and plantation companies like Feronia – and away from the world’s poorest people, warns Labour’s Dan Carden.
[Madagascar] Food self-sufficiency - Emiratis invest in Lower Mangoky
- L'Express
- 20 January 2020
Elite Agro LLC (UAE) has just signed an MoU with the Malagasy government to farm 60 000 ha in the Lower Mangoky region of southwest Madagascar, for the local market and for export
Uganda: Another coffee company is disposing hundreds of native families in Kiryandongo
- Witness Radio
- 17 January 2020
With the backing of Kiryandongo district police, Great Season Company, owned by the South Sudan nationals is violently and forcefully evicting hundreds of native families off their land.
Ukraine's farmland market: Finalized bill stipulates no more 10,000 ha per person
- UNIAN
- 15 January 2020
The document says that only individuals who are citizens of Ukraine, legal entities established by citizens of Ukraine, the state, and local communities can be players on the farmland market.
Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge
- Mongabay
- 15 January 2020
An executive decree issued by President Bolsonaro late last year could turn over vast swathes of public land to large-scale private owners, escalating conflicts with indigenous and traditional communities who utilize those lands.