Sierra Leone Climbing out of poverty
- Swedfund International
- 28 August 2013
Swedfund film focuses on the people living in the Sierra Leone countryside affected by the Addax Bioenergy sugarcane project.
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Sierra Leone's smallholder farmers 'worse off' after large land deals
- Guardian
- 26 July 2013
Push to lure foreign investors has led to a rise in social problems, sparking fears of a return to conflict, warns NGO
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Sierra Leone land grabs increase poverty and hunger says ALLAT
- ALLAT
- 26 July 2013
A new report, ‘Who Is Benefitting?', examines the impact on local communities of large land leases held by three investors in Sierra Leone.
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Österreich soll Landraub in Sierra Leone finanzieren
- Heute
- 11 April 2013
Nationale und internationale Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) erheben schwere Vorwürfe gegen Österreich. Indirekt werde von der Österreichischen Entwicklungsbank (OeEB), ein Unternehmen der Republik Österreich, ein Projekt finanziert, das Landraub (Landgrabbing) in Sierra Leone betreibe.
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Un organe de certification suisse de "biocarburants durables" légitime l'accaparement des terres
- Pain pour le prochain
- 15 Mar 2013
La Plateforme "agrocarburants" est consternée par la certification accordée à l'entreprise genevoise Addax Bioenergy par la Table ronde sur les biocarburants durables (RSB).
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Worreh Yeama people say no to Addax Bioenergy
- SEM
- 12 Mar 2013
On 2 March, officials of Swiss company Addax Bioenergy went to install pegs on a large stretch of boli land without reference to the owners of the land and in contrast with the lease agreement which says the company shall only concentrate on the upland.
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Accaparement des terres : quand les agrocarburants menacent la sécurité alimentaire
- Basta !
- 12 Mar 2013
Alors que 13 000 personnes vivraient sur les terres allouées à Addax Bioenergy, le réseau Silnorf demande que « le droit à la sécurité alimentaire soit effectivement mis en œuvre en Sierra Leone ».
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“No land, no power”
- Swedwatch
- 05 Mar 2013
Executive summary of Swedwatch's report on the Swedfund-supported Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone
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Parlementaires suisses et Conseil fédéral interpellés
- APIC
- 28 February 2013
Les œuvres d’entraide suisses demandent aux autorités suisses de s’assurer que les fonds publics versés par la Confédération ne financent pas l’accaparement des terres par les multinationales dans les pays du Sud, notamment en Afrique.
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Who's behind the land grabs?
- GRAIN
- 16 October 2012
A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.
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Concerns of civil society organisations and affected land users on Addax Bioenergy
- Silnorf and BfA
- 25 September 2012
This report by Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread for All lays out the major concerns of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and affected land users on the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone as of September 2012.
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Annual Monitoring Report on the Operations of Addax Bioenergy by the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF) for the Period June 2011 – June 2012
- Silnorf
- 06 August 2012
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food has published an Annual Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy. Some positive changes are acknowledged by SiLNoRF, e.g. on employment. However, there are still many issues of concern, such as communities asking for a written agreement from Addax to prevent it from using more than the demarcated land.
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