Cameroon

Agro-industrial investments in Cameroon: Large-scale land acquisitions since 2005
- IIED
- 10 April 2015
A new study examines large-scale land acquisitions by the agro-industrial sector in Cameroon since 2005.
Olam vante le potentiel de production d’huile de palme de l’Afrique
- Agence Ecofin
- 04 Mar 2015
«Les transactions foncières menées par les gouvernements comptent parmi les facteurs qui rendent la culture de l’huile de palme particulièrement attractive » affirme Sunny Verghese, le PDG d'Olam
From Africa's Palms
- Al Jazeera
- 27 February 2015
People & Power investigates the environmental consequences of palm oil plantations in equatorial Africa.
Chimps' survival of little concern to agribusiness
- Greenpeace
- 23 February 2015
Homes of chimpanzees destroyed by agribusiness companies – many foreign-owned – who are clearing vast tracts of rainforest throughout west and central Africa to make way for plantations producing palm oil, rubber and other commodities.
Oil palm production: Ministerial committee inspects sites in SW
- Cameroon Online
- 13 February 2015
An inter-ministerial fact-finding committee from Yaounde has inspected the palm nurseries and other investment sites of the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Limited (SC-SOC) located in the South West Region of Cameroon.
Les paysans debout contre les arrestations accusent Bolloré de double jeu
- Projet ReAct
- 16 January 2015
Des paysans au Cambodge, en Sierra Leone, au Cameroun ont manifesté pour demander à Bolloré de mettre fin aux arrestations arbitraires des paysans qui réclament leurs droits face à l’entreprise.
Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land
- Guardian
- 15 January 2015
Forest regions and local livelihoods under threat as palm oil producers looking for new agricultural land are welcomed by African governments
Relations Chine-Cameroun : la question foncière divise
- News du Camer
- 14 January 2015
L’acquisition des terres arables camerounaises par les intérêts chinois n’a pas pu être évitée lors de l’audience et de la séance de travail bipartite animées par le ministre Moukoko Mbonjo et son hôte Wang Yi.
Face à l’expansion de l’huile de palme, l’EIA organise un atelier
- Environmental Investigation Agency
- 06 January 2015
EIA organise un atelier pour renforcer les capacités de la société civile, des leaders des communautés et des peuples autochtones pour mieux appréhender les implications du développement du palmier à huile.
EIA hosts workshop as palm oil development increases
- Environmental Investigation Agency
- 06 January 2015
A regional workshop in mid-December brought Civil Society Organizations, local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin together to address the emerging threat of palm oil development in the region.
Congo Basin communities and NGOs mobilise in response to growing palm oil threat in the region
- FPP
- 05 January 2015
Organisations from Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo, agree to a "joint position" on the expansion of palm oil in the region.
Le Cameroun recherche un investisseur privé pour le complexe sucrier de Batouri, d’une capacité de 60 000 tonnes
- Agence Ecofin
- 24 November 2014
Le gouvernement camerounais cède le complexe sucrier de Justin Sugar Mills de 32 000 ha à d'autres investisseurs.