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Tvind Plantations
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.
Ecuador 
more
Brazil more
St Vincent more
Belize more
Cayman Islands more
El Salvador more
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
Monkey River Estate (5000
hectares) America's largest mango plantation. Bought from an American owner for $5-6
million, money sourced from the Caymans, by Soren Sorensen, who lives there at
Mango Walk. more
Cowpen Farm (150
hectares) Bananas. Bought from Ffyffes, 1986
____________________________________________
Brazil:
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
______________________________________________
Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
_____________________________________
Ecuador
_____________________________________
El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
__________________________________________
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Mozambique Cashew plantations
Namibia ?
__________________________________
Portugal
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
__________________________________
St Lucia
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
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
__________________________
Orange Hill Estate
___________________________________
French Polynesia ?
___________________________________
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
___________________________________________
Virgin Islands ?
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
Newspaper reports
In 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.
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.
Ecuador more
Brazil more
St Vincent more
Belize more
Cayman Islands more
El Salvador more
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
Monkey River Estate (5000
hectares) America's largest mango plantation. Bought from an American owner for $5-6
million, money sourced from the Caymans, by Soren Sorensen, who lives there at
Mango Walk. more
Cowpen Farm (150
hectares) Bananas. Bought from Ffyffes, 1986
____________________________________________
Brazil:
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
______________________________________________
Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
_____________________________________
Ecuador
_____________________________________
El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
__________________________________________
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Mozambique Cashew plantations
Namibia ?
__________________________________
Portugal
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
__________________________________
St Lucia
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
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
__________________________
Orange Hill Estate
___________________________________
French Polynesia ?
___________________________________
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
___________________________________________
Virgin Islands ?
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
Newspaper reports
In 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.
Brazil:
Fazenda
Floryl Correntina, Bahia provice.
(88,000 hectares, tropical rainforest and hardwoods) with bananas, sugar cane, rice, citrus fruit
and eucalyptus trees, which are used to manufacture cellulose. Tvind bought the farm on
22 September 1994 from Shell for the sum of $9,250,000 (US dollars).
Of
this they paid $3.25 million cash, while the rest is paid in yearly instalments
of $750.000. Reliable calculations show, that the Danes have spent 11 million
krone on the plantation since 1993. [Ekstra Bladet]
According to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Tvind is cutting down the rain
forest here. Investigative article
Big River Melons
______________________________________________
Cayman Islands
Furtherland Mango
farm
Ecuador
El Salvador
San Chico Banana, sugar
La
Cabana Rice
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Mozambique Cashew plantations
Namibia ?
Portugal
Tvind may own farm land in Portugal. See information
suggested in a memo sent to Tvind Alert in 1999: farms
in Portugal (in French)
St Lucia
Mt
Lezard Estate (1986)
Park Estate
See also:
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
__________________________
Orange Hill Estate
French Polynesia ?
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
El Varadero del
Orinoco
Virgin Islands ?
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
In 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.
Brazil:
Cayman Islands
Ecuador
El Salvador
La
Cabana Rice
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Namibia ?
Portugal
St Lucia
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
Brazil:
Cayman Islands
Ecuador
El Salvador
La
Cabana Rice
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Namibia ?
Portugal
St Lucia
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
Brazil:
Cayman Islands
Ecuador
El Salvador
La
Cabana Rice
Fiji ?
Malawi ?
Malaysia ?
Namibia ?
Portugal
St Lucia
La Vigia
El Rosario
El Chispero
Las Canitas
Zambia ?
Zimbabwe ?
La
Cabana Rice
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