A local Liberian company has filed a lawsuit against Golden Veroleum Liberia claiming that the palm company owes it money for services rendered, including death benefits for an employee who died from a workplace accident.
The final consideration will be based on Sinarmas Natural Resources' initial enterprise value of US$111 million, its working capital and financial statements at completion.
The operations of the Golden Veroleum Liberia, an oil palm concession company operating in Liberia is laden with several issues arising that could cause the company's operations to shut down.
Golden Veroleum Liberia is building one of the largest palm oil plantations in the civil-war scarred country, bringing jobs but dividing communities
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum has bulldozed religious sites in southeast Liberia and has paid police armed with assault rifles to protect its plantations, according to a new Global Witness exposé.
Au Liberia, les communautés locales s'inquiètent de l'absence d'integration du régime foncier dans les principes directeurs de la Tropical Forest Alliance 2020
Solange Bandiaky-Badji de L’ONG Rights and Ressources Initiative explique dans un entretien au Monde Afrique les enjeux de l’adoption d'un loi sur les droits fonciers, qui avait été présentée comme un modèle pour les autres pays de la région.
“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
Golden Veroleum has denied using the Ebola crisis to take advantage of Liberian communities but local officials and en disagree.
Massive land grabs in Liberia by a major oil palm company at the peak of the Ebola outbreak have had a hand in the harassment and violence faced by Liberians speaking out against palm oil expansion, a new report released Thursday claims.
L'ONG Global Witness a accusé aujourd'hui l'entreprise d'huile de palme Golden Veroleum de profiter de l'épidémie Ebola au Libéria pour doubler la taille de sa plantation.
A palm oil industry body orders one of the world's major producers to stop buying or developing new plantations in Indonesia, in a dispute seen as a test case on expansion by agribusiness firms versus local land rights.
