Failed farmland deals: a growing legacy of disaster and pain
- GRAIN
- 06 June 2018
2017 went down as one of the deadliest years ever for land defenders. It was also a pretty bad year for several land grabbers.
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Swedfund, FMO failed to respect human rights when exiting bioenergy project
- Swedwatch
- 08 November 2017
Swedwatch report shows how local communities were affected when the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone stalled and when development banks exited from the project without taking steps to protect that the rights of local communities.
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European Development Finance Institutions and land grabs: The need for further independent scrutiny
- FERN
- 16 September 2017
This study highlights the role of European Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in possible land grabs and questionable forestry projects in Africa.
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The weakest should not bear the risk
- Bread for the World
- 04 September 2016
Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.
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Final monitoring report on the operations and the scale down of Addax Bioenergy (2016)
- SiLNoRF & BfA
- 30 June 2016
This report describes the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It covers the period of July 2014 to June 2015 when Addax was still operational as well as the period of July 2015 to June 2016 when Addax scaled down its operations.
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Land grabbing: “Big, big problem”
- REDD Monitor
- 29 January 2016
Kurt Langbein, director of a documentary film, “Land Grabbing“ visits the scenes of land grabs and talks to farmers, local communities and to the investors behind the schemes. The injustice of this destructive “development” model could not be clearer.
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How a project with good aims delivered bitter outcomes in Sierra Leone
- The Conversation
- 07 January 2016
Reports about land-grabs in Africa often attack the corporations that stand to profit from such projects. But little is said of the international development banks that fund the projects.
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Effects of large-scale acquisition on food Insecurity in Sierra Leone
- Sustainability
- 17 July 2015
This study set out to investigate the food security outcomes of land acquisitions in northern Sierra Leone
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Projet d'agrocarburants en Sierra Léone : Les propriétaires fonciers exigent une renégociation des contrats de location des terres
- PPP
- 14 July 2014
Depuis mi-mai l’entreprise suisse Addax Bioenergy produit des agrocarburants en Sierra Leone, mais il règne une insatisfaction liée aux contrats de location des terres.
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SiLNoRF and Bread For All release 2014 Annual Monitoring Report on the Addax Bioenergy Project in Sierra Leone
- SiLNoRF
- 24 June 2014
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
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Farmers in Bombali, Tonkolili worried about losing land
- Concord Times
- 12 September 2013
Farmers in Bombali and Tonkolili districts in northern Sierra Leone have said that land grabbing by multi-national companies and massive timber logging are some of the barriers to sustainable agriculture in the two districts.
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Biofuel project funded by UK ‘leaves Africans without food’
- The Independent
- 03 September 2013
DfID accused of assisting land grab in Sierra Leone by providing aid for European energy business
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