Grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land.
If the plantation model in itself is understood as a violent, destructive, structurally racist and patriarchal one, can corporate gender-specific policies do more than cover up this violence and destruction?
Green Scenery applauds the visit by President Maada Bio to the People of Sahn Malen Chiefdom and his promise to resolve the dispute between the aggrieved land owners and SOCFIN Agriculture Company as soon as possible.
- Green Scenery
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01 Mar 2021
The host communities of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc in Nigeria held a peaceful protest over the weekend against what they tagged marginalisation and ill-treatment and water pollution by the oil palm company.
Recensement des entreprises françaises impliquées dans l’agriculture de différents pays tiers en 2020
Les entreprises agro-industrielles du groupe Socfin prévoient des extensions de leurs plantations au Cameroun avec un risque élevé sur la réduction du couvert forestier et de potentiels conflits sociaux
La Socapalm répond à un reportage de Deutsche Welle sur leurs activités au Cameroun
Jour d’audience dans l’affaire initiée contre Bolloré par un collectif d’ONGs coordonné par Sherpa au sujet des pratiques non éthiques de la Socapalm camerounaise, directement liée à Bolloré.
Hearing day in the case initiated against Bolloré by a collective of NGOs coordinated by Sherpa regarding the unethical practices of the Cameroonian Socapalm, directly linked to Bolloré.
The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.
Au Cameroun, les populations rurales accusent la Socapalm, une entreprise de plantation de palmiers à huile, de les déposséder de leurs terres. Elisabeth Asen Somo a mené sa petite enquête.
Salala Rubber Corporation holds a concession of over 40,000 hectares in central Liberia, but has often been accused of land grabbing and destruction of the locals’ farms
- Front Page Africa
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08 January 2021