• Concerns over land use in Salone
    • Politico
    • 04 April 2012

    Meeting of delegates from eight districts and twenty chiefdoms affected by large scale land acquisitions for agribusiness in Sierra Leone ends with formation of a coalition to serve as a watchdog on land issues in the country.

  • Lancement de l’Action pour la Transparence dans l’Acquisition de Terres à Grande Echelle (ALLAT)
    • Green Scenery
    • 03 April 2012

    Une conférence nationale en Sierra Léone est parvenue à une recommandation pour la formation d’une Coalition de la Société Civile qui servirait de contrôleur des questions foncières dans le pays.

  • A new report exposes French tycoon's land grab in Sierra Leone
    • Oakland Institute
    • 02 April 2012

    In yet another exposé of exploitative practices associated with large-scale land acquisitions, the Oakland Institute examines Socfin Agricultural Corporation Sierra Leone (Socfin), controlled by the powerful French corporate titan Vincent Bolloré

  • Sierra Leone: Land deals beginning to stir discontent
    • IRIN
    • 20 Mar 2012

    As more and more companies flock to the country to lease large tracts of land, murmurs of protest and unrest are cropping up among local populations who are unhappy with the way the deals are done.

  • The hydra head of land grabbing in Sierra Leone
    • Awoko
    • 16 Mar 2012

    The million dollar question begging for answer is whether the country is deriving any benefit from these investments?

  • Is ‘land grabbing’ good for Africa?
    • BBC
    • 25 February 2012

    So is it a land grab or a development opportunity? Is land grabbing actually good for Africa? BBC Africa Debate discusses the issue in Freetown in Sierra Leone.

  • BBC Africa debate
    • BBC
    • 20 February 2012

    This Friday, February 24th, BBC Africa will broadcast a debate from Freetown Sierra Leone on international farmland deals in Africa - or Land grabbing as it’s commonly known. Listeners can join the discussion on social media.

  • Déclaration ouest-africaine contre le « land grabbing »
    • PPP
    • 15 February 2012

    La déclaration de Ouidah vise à faire connaître les revendications des petits producteurs ouest-africains, aussi bien auprès de leur gouvernement qu’auprès des États occidentaux d’où proviennent la plupart des investisseurs.

  • Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa
    • RRI
    • 01 February 2012

    New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for centuries.

  • Case studies on private investment in farmland and agricultural infrastructure
    • High Quest Partners
    • 31 January 2012

    The six case studies compiled in this report illustrate the wide range of approaches and focus that private funds are adopting (legal structure, geography, agricultural production and operating strategies) to invest in farmland in different parts of the world.

  • A Nobel laureate’s problem at home
    • New York Times
    • 20 January 2012

    Unbeknown to many outside Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s government may now be sowing the seeds of future conflict by handing over huge tracts of land to foreign investors and dispossessing rural Liberians.

  • Sierra Leone : un investissement chinois de 1,3 milliards $ dans l’agriculture
    • EcoFin
    • 20 January 2012

    Shanghai Construction Investment et sa filiale Haman Caoutchouc investiront à partir du second semestre 2012 un montant de 1,3 milliards $ dans la culture du riz et du caoutchouc en Sierra Leone sur une superficie de 30 000 hectares situé dans le nord du pays (région Tonkolili)

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