Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone news: calls for urgent land audit
- Awoko
- 31 July 2017
Sierra Leone calls for urgent land audit. In the last five years, 30% of the arable land has gone to large-scale investors.
World Bank offers 10 mln USD for land policy project in Sierra Leone
- Xinhua
- 27 July 2017
The World Bank says it had a team of consultants in Sierra Leone in May 2017 to do an assessment of large scale agricultural land acquisitions and that the report is now ready with several recommendations.
The price of palm oil in Sierra Leone
- DW
- 17 July 2017
New oil plantations grab land and destroy the environment in e.g. Sierra Leone. But there is a fair and environmentally friendly alternative way.
Land grabbing africano made in Lussemburgo
- Osservatoro Diritti
- 05 July 2017
Movimenti locali e ong internazionali accusano aziende del gruppo Socfin di non rispettare i diritti di contadini e comunità. I principali punti critici sono mancanza di dialogo, accaparramento di terre, fiumi inquinati e poco lavoro
Sierra Leone: Pujehun land rights activists freed
- Awoko
- 27 June 2017
Four land rights activists, members of Youth Affected by Socfin Agricultural Company, were freed from the custody of Pujehun Correctional Centre
Sierra Leone : la société civile interpelle l’exécutif sur la gestion du foncier agricole
- Agence Ecofin
- 27 June 2017
L’Ong sierra-léonaise Action pour la transparence des acquisitions de terrains à grande échelle (ALLAT) a appelé ce 27 juin 2017 le gouvernement à une prise en considération « sérieuse » des enjeux fonciers afin de prévenir les conflits.
As 21-day ultimatum for SOCFIN Manager elapse…
- Concord Times
- 19 June 2017
Majority of workers have stopped working on the oil palm plantation until the SOCFIN General Manager addresses concerns raised in the Malen Youth Development Union’s letter dated 20 May 2017.
Agric. Minister calls for review of Socfin land lease agreement in Pujehun
- Awoko
- 15 June 2017
Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture has called for a review of the flawed 50 year land lease agreement signed in 2011 between land owners and Socfin Agriculture Company
21 days ultimatum for Socfin Managers
- Awoko
- 02 June 2017
Malen Youth Development Union issues second complaint letter to SOCFIN about the grave abuses of workers at its oil palm plantations in Sierra Leone and issues of unfulfilled development promises for locals.
Negotiating large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone: a paralegal approach
- Reuters
- 10 May 2017
Over the past several years, a small band of grassroots advocates has been helping communities secure progressively better arrangements with investors interested in their land.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2017
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2016
Farmers seek independent inquiry into controversial Sierra Leone palm oil deal
- Reuters
- 29 Mar 2017
Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.