Sierra Leone

Green Scenery applauds the visit by President Maada Bio to the People of Sahn Malen Chiefdom and his promise to resolve the dispute between the aggrieved land owners and SOCFIN Agriculture Company as soon as possible.

Experts from South Africa conducted a 230,000 ha aerial land mapping and surveying exercise in Rhombe, Torma Bum and Komrabai Mamela as part of the UAE funded Rhombe Rice Project.

The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.

Sierra Leone's parliament has unanimously approved a foreign investment agreement giving Elite Agro (UAE) 14,700 hectares to grow rice for export

The Government of Sierra Leone has secured USD $ 54M for a project with the UAE's Elite Agro, to produce rice on 14,700 hectares within the Rhombe Swamp in Port Loko District.

Those accused were all members of the Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association (MALOA), advocating for the land rights of their members in the face of the operations of the palm oil company SOCFIN.

Aminata Fabba, Chairlady of the Malen Land Owners Association, spoke out at the First Peoples’ Hearing of Mano River CSO Platform in Liberia about the abuses here community in Sierra Leone is facing at the hands of SOCFIN.

The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next.

Update report on the Addax land grab in Sierra Leone - originally fuelled by European development banks, then taken over by Sunbird Bioenergy and then by Brown Investment Plc

Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) say they are dissatisfied with the process of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to certify Socfin Agricultural Company's operation in Malen Chiefdom.

The Sierra Leone Land Alliance has released a report critical of the situation land ownership and acquisition in the country, with particular emphasis on the Western area.

The Sierra Leone Agriculture signed a 50-year lease for 41,582 hectares of land for the development of palm oil, displacing over 30,000 residents and farmers, mostly women, in the Northwest district of Sierra Leone