Liberia

Lutte des riverains des plantations Socfin Bolloré
- Projet React
- 19 May 2016
Pour revendiquer leurs droits, les riverains des plantations Socfin-Bolloré s'organisent.
Companies run by ex-cricketer Phil Edmonds 'paid bribes to officials'
- Guardian
- 12 May 2016
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.
What price palm oil?
- BBC
- 09 May 2016
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.
La Socfin menace toujours les forêts africaines
- Greenpeace
- 09 May 2016
Des investigations récentes de Greenpeace montrent que les forêts camerounaises et libériennes sont elles aussi menacées par les activités de la Socfin.
Piden a la UE frenar las violaciones a DDHH por parte de empresas palmeras
- Contagio Radio
- 06 May 2016
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.
Land rights at root of palm oil conflict in Liberia, campaigners say
- Reuters
- 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.
Palm oil protest urges boycott at London Stock Exchange
- Business Times
- 04 May 2016
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.
Protecting community lands & resources in Africa: Grassroots advocates’ strategies & lessons
- Namati
- 20 January 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.
ECOWAS to provide US$25m to restart ADA/LAP Rice Project
- Hot Pepper
- 23 November 2015
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.
The myth of the African land grab
- Foreign Policy
- 20 October 2015
Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.
Le mythe de l’accaparement des terres africaines
- Foreign Policy
- 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.
Riot on the plantation
- Aljazeera
- 05 October 2015
In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land