A group of community leaders from Colombia, Liberia, Indonesia and Peru have been raising awareness in Europe of the human and environmental impact of palm oil plantations on their communities. Radio interview with Ali Kaba of Liberia's Sustainable Development Institute.
Des investigations récentes de Greenpeace montrent que les forêts camerounaises et libériennes sont elles aussi menacées par les activités de la Socfin.
Entre el 25 de abril y el 4 de mayo delegados de Indonesia, Perú, Colombia y Liberia, entre otros países exigieron en Londres que la Unión Europea ponga fin a las violaciones de derechos humanos y al acaparamiento de tierras vinculados a las empresas de palma de aceite, que en su mayoría consume la UE.
- Contagio Radio
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06 May 2016
The lack of tenure over ancestral lands lies at the root of violent clashes on land leased to foreign palm oil producers in Liberia, a leading researcher said.
Indigenous and civil society leaders from Indonesia, Peru, Colombia and Liberia gathered in London Wednesday to urge a boycott of firms that commit human rights violations and land seizures to cultivate palm oil.
- Business Times
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04 May 2016
Book provides a variety of ingenious, creative, and practical strategies for proactively confronting the forces that undermine community land and natural resource tenure security in Africa.
The Economic Community for West African States has agreed to provide the Foundation for African Development Aid US$25 million to revamp a rice project originally financed by the Libyan African Investment Portfolio.
- Hot Pepper
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23 November 2015
Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.
- Foreign Policy
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20 October 2015
L’Afrique est-elle vraiment en train de passer aux mains des investisseurs étrangers ? Les choses ne sont pas si simples, relate Foreign Policy.
- Foreign Policy
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20 October 2015
In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land
- Aljazeera
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05 October 2015
La silence du groupe SOCFIN a mené à une nouvelle série de mobilisations dans les différents pays dès le mois d’Avril 2015, qui se sont achevées par des actions lors des assemblées générales du groupe Socfin puis Bolloré.
“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
