SOCFIN

Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.

One month after the confrontation between land owners in southern Sierra Leone and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company, Green Scenery published a 13-page report on the clamp down on community members who have been advocating for their rights to their land.

Sunny Ajele, talks about how life for the communities in Edo State Nigeria has changed with the expansion of the oil palm plantations by a SOCFIN subsidiary

Depuis un certain temps déjà, ceux qui travaillent avec les communautés locales dans le district de Pujehun tentent d’avertir le gouvernement et l’entreprise de la dégradation de la situation.

Police in Sierra Leone open fire on villagers gathered to express their grievances over the lease of 6,500 hectares of land to the Socfin Agricultural Company. Only the latest incident in a deteriorating situation.

La police sierra-léonaise a ouvert le feu, le 10 décembre, sur des manifestants armés, protestant contre un projet d'expansion d’un projet de culture d'huile de palme de la Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin), a déclaré un responsable de la police.

Sierra Leone police opened fire on a group of protestors who were demonstrating against a palm oil plantation being developed by Socfin, a French agri-business giant.

Cinq membres sierra-léonais d'une ONG locale (MALOA), qui avaient contesté la manière dont le groupe Bolloré a acheté des terres pour les plantations d'huile de palme dans leur région, sont accusés d'avoir détruit des plants de palmiers.

Five members of Malen Affected Land Owners Association arrested by police for allegedly destroying oil palms of Luxembourg-based SOCFIN say they are being unfairly targeted by those profiting from the plantation.

A new report, ‘Who Is Benefitting?', examines the impact on local communities of large land leases held by three investors in Sierra Leone.

"Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai fait de mal ?" Mercredi 5 juin, à Puteaux, Vincent Bolloré s'enveloppe d'une candeur inhabituelle pour un capitaine d'industrie aux dents longues, dont le chemin vers la réussite est jalonné des cadavres de concurrents plus tendres que lui

Farmers in four African countries, whose land, lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the expansion of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions at the group's general shareholders’ meeting.