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Ledger 1 : 33 — For each dollar financing nature-based solutions in 2023, about $33 financed activities harmful to nature. (UNEP)
Cases / Killings and repression of defenders · Kenya · 2023

Killings alleged at Del Monte's pineapple farm in Thika, Kenya

Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.

Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
What the record lacks: 2 none on record · 1 insufficient · 1 not measured See the gaps

Guards at Del Monte's pineapple farm in Thika, Kenya, have been accused of killings and rape, and security was outsourced to G4S in 2024; the company says no fault has been established. At stake for nature is how the farm and its neighbours are managed, which the sources reviewed do not describe.

What?
Guards at Del Monte's pineapple farm in Thika are accused of killings; the company says no fault has been established. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Where?
Thika, Kenya, pineapple farm Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
When?
Allegations reported 2023, 2025 and 2026; G4S security from 2024; two deaths reported in August 2025
Who?
Gained
None on record
Lost
  • Villagers near the farm — Allegations of killings and rape filed on behalf of 134 villagers
Harmed
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Security outsourced to G4S in 2024; supermarket orders reportedly halted
6 of 6 questions answered from the record

What happened

The record, in order.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre reported in 2023 that guards at Del Monte's pineapple farm in Kenya were accused of killings.

Allegations of killings and rape were filed on behalf of 134 villagers, and Tesco and Morrisons reportedly halted orders from the farm.

Security was given to G4S in 2024, and the Kenya Human Rights Commission reported in 2025 a further killing tied to G4S guards in Murang'a.

The company says no fault has been established, and the sources reviewed report between three and five killings, none of them proven in court.

    In court and with insurers

    Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.

    Lawsuits and rulings

    No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.

    Insurers

    No insurer decision on record.

    What we don't know

    Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.

    Nature

    • Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.

    Record

    • Insufficient Reported but not verified: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism's count of 11 deaths could not be independently verified.
    • None on record Not known: the history of the Thika land.
    • None on record Not known: which Del Monte entity operates the Thika farm, since several companies trade under the Del Monte name.

    Did the harm stop?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Who paid?

    Not stated in the sources reviewed.

    Sources

    Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts— Press and investigations✓ Communities and civil society— Researchers

    Communities and civil society

    1. Guards at Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya accused of killings
      Business & Human Rights Resource Centre · 2023

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