• Land owner protests against Socfin’s operation as police intimidation continues
    • Green Scenery
    • 27 June 2012

    A ten-acre plantation of oil palm, cola nuts, coffee and cacao has been completely destroyed by employees of Socfin Agricultural Company S.L. in Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Sierra Leone.

  • 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.

  • L’accaparement des terres prend des proportions incontrôlables
    • APIC
    • 19 June 2012

    "Pain pour le prochain" (PPP) a soulevé le problème de l’accaparement des terres, lors d’une conférence co-organisée au Sommet des Peuples à Rio de Janeiro au Brésil, le 18 juin 2012.

  • Sierra Léone : Les chefs traditionnels africains refusent de céder la terre africaine
    • Afriques en lutte
    • 13 June 2012

    D’un côté, l’acharnement avec lequel certains dirigeants africains s’organisent en toute opacité pour vendre ou mettre en concession la terre africaine contre la volonté des populations et, d’un autre côté, le rapport de l’institut Oakland qui tente d’apporter, avec beaucoup de brio, les conditions qui prévalent lors d’un investissement d’une entreprise multinationale en Afrique sont édifiants.

  • Land deals in Sierra Leone involving Kevin Godlington
    • 03 June 2012

    A collection of leases for farmland in Sierra Leone in which Kevin Godlington of the UK was involved.

  • Indian farmer’s African safari
    • Business World
    • 02 June 2012

    Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

  • Whitestone sub-leasing 1.34 million acres in Sierra Leone
    • Rural Modernity
    • 30 May 2012

    Since 2009, Whitestone (SL) Limited has managed to obtain 13 leasehold titles covering a staggering 1.34 million acres of land in the Bombali and Koinadugu Districts of Northern Sierra Leone for large-scale agricultural development.

  • La FAO y el acaparamiento de tierras
    • El Parque de las Hamacas
    • 21 May 2012

    El escenario propuesto por el responsable de la FAO en Sudán del Sur, choca de frente con el masivo acaparamiento de tierras en el continente, que está ayudando a la gente a abandonar las actividades agrícolas, ganaderas y de otro tipo en las que basan sus medios de subsistencia.

  • Swedish aid investment resulted in land-grabbing
    • Sveriges Radio
    • 02 May 2012

    Swedfund, the Swedish development investment company, has invested tens of millions in a company that will produce ethanol in Sierra Leone, but the local people affected by water shortages and hunger when the company took over their land. Now the inhabitants urge Sweden for help.

  • Vill se öppenhet från Swedfund om Sierra Leone
    • Sveriges Radio
    • 02 May 2012

    Biståndsminister Gunilla Carlsson vill att Swedfund öppet delar med sig av resultaten, när organisationen själv granskar situationen i Sierra Leone. Efter Ekots rapportering, om att biståndsorganisationens investeringar i landet orsakar vattenbrist och hunger för fattiga, ska Swedfund besöka landet och se över de investeringar som gjorts i ett etanolprojekt.

  • Farmers make their voices heard on large land investments in Sierra Leone
    • Oakland Institute
    • 12 April 2012

    Between April 1-4, 2012, farmers, small land owners, women, youth, and elders assembled in Freetown to have their voices heard and strategize a way forward.

  • Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
    • Guardian
    • 11 April 2012

    Farmers and activists are increasing pressure on the government to be more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and to make sure local communities benefit

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