Deal #7676 Version #80693

Failure to conduct community consultations, seeking consent from affected communities

The evicted families accuse two companies; Agilis Partners Limited, a grain dealing company and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited of colluding with the Police and the office of the Resident District Commissioner to violently evict them and destroying property worth millions of shillings.

Kiryandongo Sugar limited is also evicting over 3,000 families off former ranch 23, 28, 30 and 31 to grow sugarcane. Before the agribusiness companies came in, Badudu and the other small farmers of Kiryandongo planted beans, maize, sweet potatoes, bananas, groundnuts, cassava and mangoes, and they kept pigs, goats and cows. Now, large chunks of land are covered with sugarcane, coffee, soya and maize which are all solely for export, while one of the companies.

An estimated 35,000 people are being evicted to make way for these three plantation projects (Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited and Agilis Partners). The health of the workers and local people are also impacted by the heavy use of agrochemicals on the plantations as well as the burning of sugarcane. Local residents say that nothing is done to protect them or forewarn them when crops are being sprayed or being burned. Several local schools have closed because the children can no longer access them.