Liberia

Alors que les informations sont données au compte-gouttes par nos élus, le collectif NOPALME est heureux de voir les prises de positions se succéder, soulignant l'aberration du projet dans le contexte mondial et régional.

Reportage sur France Culture

As foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm oil plantations, the survival of local people is being threatened as they lose control of the land and water on which they depend for their food production and livelihoods

En Afrique de l’Ouest le phénomène des terres fertiles bradées à des investisseurs étrangers a atteint des dimensions dramatiques, comme le montre un rapport du conseil des églises de l’Afrique de l’Ouest ACCEAO, partenaire de Pain pour le prochain.

Grand Cape Mount County citizens have registered and documented their opposition to the provision of additional 15, 000 hectares to Sime Darby for cultivation of oil palms in Garwular and Golakonneh Districts.

The Key campaigner of Green Advocates, Cllr. Alfred Brownell has threatened a lawsuit against the government for allowing Sime Darby, an oil palm production company to operate in Cape Mount and Bomi Counties in violation of the citizens’ rights under the constitution of Liberia.

Le collectif Nopalme commence à avoir des contacts au Libéria, là où Sime Darby implante des palmiers à huile, à ce jour 10 000 hectares sur les 220 000 qu'il a reçus en concession.

Citizens from more than 15 towns and villages in Grand Cape Mount County' Liberia say company will face stiff resistance if it undertakes any further extension of its concession.

Addax loue sur 50 ans près de 52.000 hectares. Le but : transformer dès l'an prochain 100.000 tonnes de canne à sucre en bioéthanol qui viendra remplir les réservoirs des voitures en Europe.

World's largest agribusiness company would like to become a "mini UN" in Liberia.

Foreign investment in land opens a new chapter in the colonization of Africa, said today (Tuesday) in London one of the leaders of the think-tank Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA).

In 2009 Sime Darby Plantation acquired a 63-year concession covering 220,000ha in Liberia that it will developed into oil palm and rubber plantations