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How a company exploits a country. The case of Glencore in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In cooperation with the South African Bench Marks Foundation Bread for all conducted an exclusive study on the activities of the Swiss commodities group Glencore International AG in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The study reveals disturbing results.
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Study reveals alarming facts about Ethanol plantation of Addax Bioenergy in Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF) published on 15 June 2011 the Independent Study report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Geneva based firm Addax Bioenergy. This Study report was financed by Bread for all, the Development Service of the Protestant Churches in Switzerland.
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Religion matters
Religious factors in spite of being culturally, socially, economically and politically relevant have been neglected during decades in discourse and practice of development cooperation. Bread for all has contributed to a conference organised on this subject by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Read more »
Millenium Development Goals
The UN organized a High-Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York on 20-22 September 2010. Bread for all has contributed to the elaboration of the key message of ACT Alliance. You will also find information about a high-level meeting of church leaders from Africa with Micheline Calmy-Rey, Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Read more »
Lenten campaign 2012 More equality, less hungerThe Lenten campaign 2012 adresses the inequalities between men and women. The right to food for all men and women requires a sharing of power and responsibilities, as well as changes centred on this “economy of care”. As part of this campaign Bread for all wants to render visible women’s subsistence work and the way in which men are involved in this work. An alternative way of constructing the economy develops, a sustainable economy, serving everyone. We can all, women and men, help to support these seeds for the future. Campaign Flyer » News Addax Bioenergy: problematic investments of development banksThe Swiss company Addax Bioenergy claims that its ethanol project in Sierra Leone is “sustainable” and received more than half of the financing from development banks. A new study of Bread for all shows that the Addax project is far from being sustainable. Addax was granted many tax exemptions and the project will mainly benefit the company while other stakeholders, including the local population, will profit marginally. Ethanol has an up to three times higher environmental impact than petrol. Addax will use 26% of Sierra Leone’s biggest river during the dry season. The compensation system of Addax lease agreement could well have encouraged the collusion of local authorities. Bread for all urges development banks that finance this project to better evaluate the impacts and the risks of such an investment. "Bread for all: Land Grabbing: the Dark Side of 'sustainable' Investments" |
