Around 3.7 million hectares of oil palm plantations have been seized by Indonesian military, with nearly half transferred to nascent state firm Agrinas Palma Nusantara, catapulting it into the world's largest palm oil company by land size. A sweeping military-backed takeover that has sent a chill through the world's biggest palm oil producer and its 16-million-strong workforce.
Liberian civil society and international allies are urgently demanding the RSPO maintain its stop-work order on GVL’s expansion to prevent further deforestation, protect communities’ rights, and ensure accountability for the company’s environmental and human rights violations.
The Civil Society Oil Palm Working Group of Liberia has called on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to immediately reinstate the stop-work order on Golden Veroleum Liberia, citing unresolved compliance issues and unfulfilled conditions related to land use and community rights.
Golden Veroleum Liberia is not being held accountable for defying a ruling issued six years ago by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil against the company for land grabbing.
A statement by women from several counties in Liberia denounces mining and agricultural companies like Golden Veroleum for depriving women of their lands for farming.
Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.
The companies that sell oil palm to major firms like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's and Mondelēz are depriving indigenous communities of potentially millions of dollars of income, a joint BBC investigation has found.
Many rural communities affected by agricultural concessions in Liberia have seen their ancestral gravesites leveled in some of the worst land-grabs in human history.
Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.
A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.
Death threats and exile: Local environmental defenders are the front line of the climate crisis - protecting the land they live on when it’s threatened by powerful business interests.
16 former workers of Golden Veroleum Liberia received their severance benefits following a settlement with the company, one year and eight months after they filed a complaint with the labor Office over their illegal dismissals.
