Liberia

Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°87
- Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
- 28 Mar 2013
Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de paraître
Sinar Mas firm to invest $1.6 billion in Liberian palm oil
- Jakarta Post
- 26 Mar 2013
Sinar Mas Group says it will invest US$1.6 billion in the Liberian palm oil business to expand operations overseas.
Land reforms in Liberia must learn from and protect communities' customary land and resource rights, urge Grand Cape Mount communities in new report
- Green Advocates & FPP
- 25 Mar 2013
Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia, present new report about their dispute with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby.
New reports: African governments giving land away quickly, recognizing land rights slowly
- RRI
- 07 Mar 2013
Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed
Liberian women impacted by expansion of Sime Darby’s oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 04 Mar 2013
The report “Uncertain Futures. The impacts of Sime Darby on communities”, produced by SDI and WRM, gives a deeper insight in how industrial oil palm plantations affect women in a differentiated way.
Liberia: Sime Darby's slave camp is another face of corporate evil
- New Democrat
- 01 Mar 2013
A Malaysian company that came to Liberia and acquired huge land space, promised to plant about 20,000 hectares to do Liberia proud by investing in oil palm is today embroiled in controversy and internecine conflict.
Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°86
- Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
- 21 February 2013
Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir
Land rushes — and the people left behind
- Boston Globe
- 20 February 2013
Today, more than a quarter of all the land in Liberia is leased or owned by logging, mining, or factory-style agriculture companies. Nothing is wrong with that — unless you happen to be one of the people who used to live on that land.
Strike continues at Sime Darby
- New Dawn
- 20 February 2013
Normal work at the Sime Darby Plantation in western Liberia has been stalled for the second week running, as workforce presses for better salaries and improved working conditions, having accused management of bad labor practice.
Global land grab brings investment risk, communities react to economic harm, rights abuses
- RRI
- 05 February 2013
Risk analysts show that operational cost increases can approach 2,800 percent; Myanmar is latest flashpoint in alarming trend
Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit
- FOE
- 01 February 2013
Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities, warn Liberian NGOs.
Au Liberia, la résistance paysanne s'organise entre les palmiers à huile
- AFP
- 20 January 2013
Leurs terres cédées par le gouvernement aux planteurs malaisiens et indonésiens, des paysans du Liberia dénoncent des accords qui les ignorent: après 15 ans de guerre civile, des nouvelles luttes s'annoncent.