The company owned by Itochu Corp of Japan is currently cultivating 300 out of 4,335 hectares leased under agreements with landowners in Lugbu Chiefdom, Sierra Leone
- Politico Online
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30 June 2021
La Sierra Leone a accepté de vendre 100 ha de plage immaculée et de forêt tropicale à la Chine dans le cadre d’un accord de 55 millions de dollars qui verrait un port de pêche industriel construit sur le site.
If the plantation model in itself is understood as a violent, destructive, structurally racist and patriarchal one, can corporate gender-specific policies do more than cover up this violence and destruction?
Green Scenery applauds the visit by President Maada Bio to the People of Sahn Malen Chiefdom and his promise to resolve the dispute between the aggrieved land owners and SOCFIN Agriculture Company as soon as possible.
- Green Scenery
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01 Mar 2021
Experts from South Africa conducted a 230,000 ha aerial land mapping and surveying exercise in Rhombe, Torma Bum and Komrabai Mamela as part of the UAE funded Rhombe Rice Project.
The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.
Sierra Leone's parliament has unanimously approved a foreign investment agreement giving Elite Agro (UAE) 14,700 hectares to grow rice for export
- Politico SL
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17 December 2020
The Government of Sierra Leone has secured USD $ 54M for a project with the UAE's Elite Agro, to produce rice on 14,700 hectares within the Rhombe Swamp in Port Loko District.
- Awareness Times
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16 December 2020
Those accused were all members of the Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association (MALOA), advocating for the land rights of their members in the face of the operations of the palm oil company SOCFIN.
- Green Scenery
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11 December 2020
Aminata Fabba, Chairlady of the Malen Land Owners Association, spoke out at the First Peoples’ Hearing of Mano River CSO Platform in Liberia about the abuses here community in Sierra Leone is facing at the hands of SOCFIN.
- Liberian Observer
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11 December 2020
The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.
Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc
- Bread for All
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19 November 2020