Liberia

Resisting Sime Darby: Oil palm development slammed at Gbarpolu conference
- FrontPageAfrica
- 02 December 2012
Citizens at a conference in Bopolu expressed strong opposition to planned oil-palm development by Sime Darby in Gbarpolu County.
Civil society groups to investors: Stop land grabbing
- AkanimoReports
- 30 November 2012
Major farmland investors such as banks and pension funds must stop facilitating land grabs, civil society groups on the eve of a global farmland investment conference in London on December 3-5, have said.
Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia
- EJOLT
- 20 November 2012
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
Land rush leaves Liberia’s farmers in the dust
- Globe and Mail
- 27 September 2012
The Liberian government has leased nearly 6 per cent of Liberia’s total land mass to palm-oil companies. More than a million people live on those lands, and 150,000 will be affected in the first five years of the plantations.
Land grab in Sinoe County: Equatorial Palm Oil Company accused by locals
- FrontPageAfrica
- 24 September 2012
A group calling itself the Greater Tarsue Community of Butaw, Sinoe County, Liberia has strongly protested what they refer to as illegal land grab by Equatorial Palm Oil Company.
Uncertain futures
- SDI
- 23 September 2012
A new report by the Liberian NGO Sustainable Development Institute presents testimonies of people affected by Sime Darby operations in western Liberia and highlights the fears of others where the company plans to expand in the coming years.
Liberia: Sime Darby denies awarding contract to Green Advocates
- New Republic
- 14 September 2012
“We need to be growing at the rate of 10,000 hectares a year to be economically viable, which is not happening,” says Sime Darby official. “Securing land has been a gruelling process.”
Commercial viability & value creation in West African palm oil production
- Hardman & Co
- 06 August 2012
Overview of the palm oil sector in West Africa - major players (Siva, SIAT, Sime Darby, SIFCA, Bolloré, Olam...), hectarage under foreign corporate control, etc.
Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°78
- Le Hub Rural
- 22 June 2012
Le dernier bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de sortir.
La course aux surfaces agricoles, une bombe à retardement en Afrique
- AFP
- 18 June 2012
Le sujet n'est pas à l'ordre du jour officiel du sommet de l'ONU sur le développement durable Rio+20 du 20 au 22 juin, mais il y sera porté par les ONG.
Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°76
- Le Hub Rural
- 07 June 2012
Bulletin d'information du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Au menu : offre d'emploi, agrobusiness et course aux terres agricoles, politiques foncières, décentralisation, conflits fonciers etc.
Cargill envisage de créer 10 000 emplois au Cameroun
- Investir au Cameroun
- 20 May 2012
Le groupe américain mène «une mission de prospection qui vise à implanter en Afrique, notamment au Cameroun, au Liberia et en Côte d’Ivoire, une vaste plantation de palmier à huile.» On parle de 50000 ha.