Palm oil in Cameroon: French courts must order the group to respect its commitments for residents and workers of the Socapalm plantations.

In a letter addressed to SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, the Traditional Council of Okomu Kingdom tells the company it will enforce its rightful ownership of the lands that the company currently occupies.

SOCFIN Société de Agriculture Sierra Leona Ltd (SAC) llegó en 2011 a la jefatura de Malen, situada en la provincia meridional de Sierra Leona, en el marco de una gran inversión en aceite de palma.

Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.

In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm, both affiliated with Bolloré Group, sued journalists and nongovernmental groups who reported on villagers’ protests against the companies’ palm oil plantations in their communities and land.

Al introducir un indicador de tierra en el proyecto EBA (Facilitando los Negocios en la Agricultura por sus siglas en inglés) el Banco ha creado un instrumento para prescribir reformas de políticas que facilitarán el acceso a la tierra para la agroindustria.

France Télévisions a remporté son quatrième procès face à Vincent Bolloré, mais le chef d'entreprise a décidé de saisir la Cour de cassation

This historic case against French corporation Bolloré does more than send a strong signal supporting freedom of the press: it is a recognition of the reality for villagers living in the shade of the plantations of SOCAPALM in Cameroon.

In 2011, the plantation management company, Socfin opened a new palm oil plantation in Malen, in south east Sierra Leone. The subsequent eight years have seen a grave property conflict emerge between a number of local residents and the company.

World Bank is launching an unprecedented attack on the commons by pushing privatisation of customary and public land and its sale by auction to the highest bidder. The land indicator’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture rankings prescribes policy reforms to ease access to land for agribusiness.

Requête et revendications des femmes vivant autour et à l'intérieur des plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéa de la filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré (Socapalm) au Cameroun

Socfin denies allegation and argues amongst other things that they went through a lengthy process of consultation with the communities, resulting in an overall acceptance and support to the project

Sous la pression de SOCFIN, ING a accepté de maintenir ses financements et donne un sursis de 3 ans supplémentaires à la société pour obtenir une certification RSPO de toutes les plantations.

The Government of Sierra Leone has kicked-off investigations into the continuous and mounting disputes among landowners on how thousands of hectares of lands were taken away from them in Malen Chiefdom, Southern Sierra Leone

Socfin dément l'information selon laquelle « ING arrêtait momentanément ses crédits avec le Groupe Socfin, tant que toutes ses plantations d’huile de palme ne seraient pas certifiées RSPO ».

ESCR-Net members have been engaged in several actions in opposition to Luxembourg registered agri-business Socfin Group and its operations in several Western African countries.

The Luxembourgish daily publishes a letter from Socfin, a plantation company registered in Luxembourg, together with its own rectifications.

Le journal luxembourgeois publie un courrier de la société Socfin, ainsi que des précisions de leur part.

On the 8th of March - International Women's Day – we join women across the world who are affected by the violent expansion of industrial oil palm and rubber plantations and who are calling for action to stop the harassment, sexual violence and abuse against women in and around plantations IMMEDIATELY!

Le 8 mars nous nous associons aux femmes impactées par l’expansion violente des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile et d’hévéas qui appellent à l’action pour L’ARRÊT IMMÉDIAT du harcèlement, des violences sexuelles et des abus à leur encontre.

FIAN Belgium publie un nouveau rapport "Accaparement de terres et huile de palme en Sierra Leone : analyse du cas SOCFIN à la lumière des droits humains".

Enquête de Médor sur le groupe Socfin (seulement disponible en librairie)

Over the past few years, civil society groups have been drawn into a serious of legal actions to defend the rights of people to talk about what they see and experience as land grabbing and other abuses committed not only by multinational corporations in the agribusiness arena, but government authorities and local elites as well.

Au cours des dernières années, des organisations de la société civile ont été impliqués dans une série d’actions juridiques pour défendre le droit des gens de s’exprimer sur ce qu’ils voient et vivent comme un accaparement des terres.

Enquête de Cédric Vallet sur une concession litigieuse sur laquelle flottent des soupçons de corruption.

ING a décidé d’arrêter momentanément ses crédits au groupe luxembourgeois Socfin du Belge Hubert Fabri, tant que toutes ses plantations d’huile de palme ne seront pas certifiées RSPO

Dans un communiqué diffusé aux medias locaux en février 2019, Socfin-KCD donne sa version de l’affaire

ESCR-Net has written to President Bio about the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and Users Association in connection with industrial scale palm oil operations by Société Financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin Group).

The women of Malen, Sierra Leone are demanding that the lands taken from them by SOCFIN be returned to them so they can go back to their farms for their own agricultural activities and be able to take care of their families.

Food companies doing business in Africa risk becoming bogged down in decades-long legal disputes over land that could cost tens of millions of dollars, according to a new report from ODI.