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Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa

As the escalating climate crisis threatens access to water for millions across Africa, Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa unveils the devastating impact of large-scale agricultural plantations on the right to water on the continent. Since the 2007-2008 food crisis, Africa has been the primary destination of private international investors for large-scale agriculture schemes...

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Menace sur les eaux africaines : comment l’expansion de l’agriculture industrielle assèche l’Afrique
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Meet the Investors Behind the PHC Oil Palm Plantations in DRC

As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 hectares of their ancestral land occupied by oil palm plantations are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, Meet the Investors Behind the PHC Oil Palm Plantations in DRC exposes the financiers profiteering from the plantations. Communities in Lokutu, Yaligimba, and Boteka in DRC, forcibly displaced first in 1911 by the Belgian colonial authorities to establish oil palm plantations,...

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In King Leopold’s Steps: The Investors Bankrolling the PHC Oil Palm Plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

As community efforts to reclaim 100,000 hectares of their ancestral land, initially seized over a century ago for oil palm plantations, are met with violent repression, unlawful arrests, and murder, In King Leopold's Steps: The Investors Bankrolling the PHC Oil Palm Plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo unveils the names of the investors financing the plantations in the DRC.

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Sur les pas du roi Leopold: Les investisseurs dans les plantations de palmiers à huile de PHC en République démocratique du Congo

Blog

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Comment l'exploitation coloniale se perpétue dans les Plantations de Palmiers à Huile PHC en RDC

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 Andy Currier

Les communautés de Lokutu, Yaligimba et Boteka ont attendu trop longtemps que leurs droits à la terre et à la vie soient restaurés. Les investisseurs doivent être mis devant leurs responsabilités pour leur inaction.

Community members of Mwingi

Colonial Legacy of Exploitation Thrives Today on the PHC Oil Palm Plantations

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 Andy Currier

The Lokutu, Yaligimba, and Boteka communities have waited far too long for their rights to land and life to be restored; investors must be held responsible for their continued inaction

Press Releases and Public Statements

New revelations in a palm oil scandal in the DRC: Urgent actions need to be taken in the mediation process

Nouvelles révélations dans le scandale de l'huile de palme en RDC: des mesures urgentes doivent être prises dans le cadre de la médiation

PHC Congo: European Development Banks Must Be Held Accountable for Broken Mediation Process

Undermined by Violence, a Development Bank Mediation Process in the DR Congo Requires Immediate Government Action


Media

DRC communities turn up heat on EU lenders funding palm oil giant PHC

Mongabay

En RDC, les communautés tentent de récupérer leurs terres spoliées par le géant de l’huile de palme PHC

Mongabay

Colonialism Revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo

African Arguments

DRC: Palm oil producer PHC, Kuramo targeted in Mauritius lawsuit

The Africa Report

Rd Congo: chi guadagna dalle piantagioni di palma da olio?

Nigrizia

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