Liberia

Le producteur malaisien d’huile de palme Sime Darby veut quitter le Liberia, d’ici la fin 2019
- Agece Ecofin
- 02 September 2019
Sur 220 000 hectares de palmeraies prévues, seulement 10 000 hectares ont été plantés jusqu’ici.
Liberia: Report implicates gov’t officials in massive land grabs
- Liberian Observer
- 08 July 2019
The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county
Des ONG portent plainte aux Pays-Bas contre ING pour son soutien à l'huile de palme
- Belga
- 08 July 2019
Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres
Friends of the Earth groups and supporters file OECD complaint against ING for financing palm oil abuses
- Milieudefense
- 05 July 2019
NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).
The World Bank lending strategy must aim to place people above profit!
- Liberian Observer
- 05 July 2019
As evidenced in Liberia, World Bank support has gone to multinational corporations involved in vicious land grabs that have succeeded in displacing thousands of poor villagers from their ancestral lands
SRC’s investment faces hiccups
- Liberian Observer
- 04 July 2019
The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the International Finance Corporation has tabled all SRC’s loan application processes pending full scale investigation into a recent complaint filed against it by 22 indigenous Liberian communities.
To stop destruction of Liberia’s rainforest, he put his life on the line
- e360
- 18 June 2019
Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests.
The nature of social justice advocacy and local resistance to land concessions in Liberia
- Front Page Africa
- 11 June 2019
The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.
‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell
- Mongabay
- 07 June 2019
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
Rapport de développement insoutenable: Le cas Socfin au regard des communautés locales
- ReAct
- 31 May 2019
Ce rapport vise à mettre en lumière les nombreux problèmes rencontrés par les communautés riveraines des plantations du groupe Socfin dans 5 pays, en faisant le parallèle avec les engagements pris par le groupe
Liberia: Locals accuse Salala Rubber Company, Liberia Agricultural Company of land grabbing
- Front Page Africa Online
- 29 May 2019
Two major rubber plantation companies are under intense pressure from affected communities to immediately halt further illegal expansion and encroachment of their ancestral lands and withdraw from those illegally occupied areas.
Des femmes battues accueillent les actionnaires de Bolloré
- GRAIN
- 29 May 2019
Pour dénoncer les violences faites aux femmes des communautés locales, des militantes se mobilisent devant l’Assemblée Générale du Groupe Bolloré.