Liberia

Several communities say that Equatorial Palm Oil is continuously intimidating, threatening and dividing communities into signing away their land.

The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm plantations in local communities. But the local communities are not welcoming these plantations. They want their land back.

Déforestation et accaparement des terres au Cameroun par les agro-industriels du secteur de l’huile de palme, l’ONG Milieudefensie, pointe le doigt accusateur sur certaines banques néerlandaises et européennes.

Community representatives, impacted by palm oil companies in Liberia and Indonesia have traveled to the Netherlands to convey their grievances with ABN Amro, the financier of those companies.

Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.

Friends of the Earth Africa member groups visit the Joegbahn clan community in Liberia, which is facing threats from the Equatorial Oil Palm (EPO) Company to cede their remaining land to allow the company to expand its plantations.

Sur 220 000 hectares de palmeraies prévues, seulement 10 000 hectares ont été plantés jusqu’ici.

The impoverished state of Bomi County is likely to worsen as many subsistent farmers are at the verge of losing their residential and farm lands to elites, who have since begun land-grabbing spree in the county

Des ONG ont déposé plainte contre la banque néerlandaise ING auprès du point de contact des Pays-Bas de l'OCDE, réclamant que le groupe cesse d'investir dans des entreprises de production d'huile de palme qu'elles accusent d'être associées à un accaparement des terres

NGOs have filed a complaint at the OECD against the Dutch bank ING Group regarding its financing of oil palm companies involved in deforestation (Noble Group), land grabbing (Bolloré Group/Socfin) and child labor (Wilmar International).

As evidenced in Liberia, World Bank support has gone to multinational corporations involved in vicious land grabs that have succeeded in displacing thousands of poor villagers from their ancestral lands

The Liberian Observer has reliably gathered that the International Finance Corporation has tabled all SRC’s loan application processes pending full scale investigation into a recent complaint filed against it by 22 indigenous Liberian communities.