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Ecuador
Brazil
St Vincent
Belize
Cayman Islands
El Salvador
especially central America, the Caribbean and Africa. For example, Tvind may be the biggest exporter of bananas to the UK from Belize. There is a list of known plantations here. Ownership is usually through Tvind companies, often in offshore tax havens. Part of the Danish police case is that money used to buy land in Brazil should have been spent on charitable projects. In several of these plantations, Tvind has been exposed as a bad employer, forcing local people to work for low wages without proper health care, civil rights or union recognition. In some, outsiders are kept away by armed security guards. n some areas, especially southern Africa, Tvind-owned plantations may masquerade as 'development projects' for local people. In fact, local people may be charged high rents to farm on the land and the produce could well be highly profitable for Tvind. Senior managers are invariably white Europeans. Belize
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_____________________________________ Ecuador _____________________________________ El Salvador
__________________________________________ Fiji ? Malawi ? Malaysia ? Mozambique Cashew plantations Namibia ? __________________________________ Portugal
__________________________________ St Lucia
The story of the Tvind plantations in St Lucia In 1986 Roy Lawaetz found that his elderly father had come under pressure to sell off family property to Tvind, at a bargain price, with the support of the then St Lucia Prime Minister, John Compton. Roy Lawaetz, then a journalist, fought a battle to prevent the forced sale, but lost. This is his story. Roy's story __________________________
___________________________________ French Polynesia ? ___________________________________
___________________________________________ Virgin Islands ? Zambia ? Zimbabwe ? Newspaper reportsIn about 1991 Tvind claimed it had sold all its plantations. This was greeted with wry amusement by the Danish press. There was speculation that Faelleseje had simply set up a new raft of companies and sold the plantations to itself. |
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Tvind is into private
farming in a big way. As you are
rattling a tin on a windy corner of Oslo to help the world's poor, one
thing the Teachers will not tell you is just how rich Tvind itself is.
Tvind is known to own large, profitable, exploitative commercial plantations in many developing
countries.
