En partenariat avec le site d’informations Basta !, les Amis de la Terre publient aujourd’hui un rapport d’investigation qui porte sur les agissements de la compagnie malaisienne Sime Darby au Libéria.

We hear from Liberia, where foreign investment is finally starting to flood in after years of civil war. Big international companies are arriving and taking over vast areas of the country - in a move some local farmers and activists describe as a land grab.

Senator says Sime Darby’s contract was entered into by the Liberian government and as such, only the government has power to cancel it.

Small farmers lose livelihoods as 'controversial' palm-oil producing multinational moves in. Much of rural Liberia's population lives on land that has been in the family for generations.

Small farmers lose livelihoods as 'controversial' palm-oil producing multinational moves in, report says

Alfred Quayjandi accuses both the Liberian government and Sime Darby of presenting a confused and angry population with a fait accompli, failing to consult local communities and bypassing or snubbing the local administration and traditional chiefs.

Des centaines de villageois et d'habitants des villes du comté de Grand Cape Mount ont attiré l'attention de toute la population libérienne afin de récupérer des terres qu'ils considèrent comme leur appartenant, mais qui ont été saisies et cédées à un groupe agro-industriel malaisien.

Hundreds of villagers and town residents of Liberia’s Grand Cape Mount Country have attracted nationwide attention in their bid to recover what they say is land seized from them and turned over to a Malaysian agro-industrial concern.

Communities without economic power that live off of land to which they do not “own” are devastated when their government transfers the property rights to wealthy outside interests, who exploit the natural resources.

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for centuries.

En parallèle, SIFCA, actionnaire majoritaire de SIPH, a obtenu une concession pour développer des plantations d'huile de palme sur une superficie de 15 200 ha dans les mêmes comtés

Unbeknown to many outside Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s government may now be sowing the seeds of future conflict by handing over huge tracts of land to foreign investors and dispossessing rural Liberians.