Le Oakland Institute, un think-tank américain respecté pour la qualité de ses travaux, épingle les pratiques de la Socfin, une filiale du groupe Bolloré en Sierra Leone.

Aggrieved landowners and land-users in Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun, call on Human Rights Commission to intervene against human rights violations by Paramount Chief and chiefdom authorities in Socfin operation area.

Community members defy intimidation and arrests and appeal for international support in their struggle to stop SOCFIN from operating on lands the company acquired without their consent.

Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.

Après le groupe Louis Dreyfus, le deuxième plus gros investisseur français dans les terres agricoles se nomme Vincent Bolloré.

February 2012 workshop in Ouidah, Benin brought together over thirty participants from farmer organisations and NGOs in West and Central Africa to share experiences and analysis of land grabs.

Le groupe Bolloré ne cesse d’étendre son influence en Afrique et se tourne désormais vers les terres arables de la Sierra Leone.

A ten-acre plantation of oil palm, cola nuts, coffee and cacao has been completely destroyed by employees of Socfin Agricultural Company S.L. in Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, Sierra Leone.

D’un côté, l’acharnement avec lequel certains dirigeants africains s’organisent en toute opacité pour vendre ou mettre en concession la terre africaine contre la volonté des populations et, d’un autre côté, le rapport de l’institut Oakland qui tente d’apporter, avec beaucoup de brio, les conditions qui prévalent lors d’un investissement d’une entreprise multinationale en Afrique sont édifiants.

Les tribus Bunong du Cambodge, les pygmées Bagyeli du Cameroun et les villageois de la chefferie de Malen en Sierra Leone ont une chose en commun : ils sont tous aux prises avec le développement de plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile et d'hévéas par des filiales de Socfin, une société dont le principal actionnaire est le groupe Bolloré, détenu par l'homme d'affaires français Vincent Bolloré.

A new report from the Oakland Institute examines a controversial land investment deal in Sierra Leone. Pambazuka News caught up with its Policy Director to find out why the report has attracted so much attention.

Between April 1-4, 2012, farmers, small land owners, women, youth, and elders assembled in Freetown to have their voices heard and strategize a way forward.

Farmers and activists are increasing pressure on the government to be more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and to make sure local communities benefit

In yet another exposé of exploitative practices associated with large-scale land acquisitions, the Oakland Institute examines Socfin Agricultural Corporation Sierra Leone (Socfin), controlled by the powerful French corporate titan Vincent Bolloré

As more and more companies flock to the country to lease large tracts of land, murmurs of protest and unrest are cropping up among local populations who are unhappy with the way the deals are done.

The global rush to acquire large amounts of land in developing countries has done more harm than good, especially to the poorest people who often lose access to land and resources essential to their livelihoods.

The adoption by the UN Committee on World Food Security of international guidelines to regulate land grabs has been pushed to next year

La FIDH dénonce les impacts d'une filiale du groupe Bolloré sur la communauté des Bonong au Cambodge. Un exemple des conflits fonciers qui se multiplient aujourd'hui dans le pays autour de concessions accordées par le gouvernement.

Sierra Leone authorities have arrested 39 protesters in the south of the West African nation, following tensions between the local population and a unit of Socfin, owned by France's Bolloré Group

Socfin Agricultural Company is embroiled in serious land lease agreement tussle that has the tendency to ignite conflict between foreign investors and locals.

Les autorités de la Sierra Leone ont arrêté 39 manifestants dans le sud de cette nation ouest-africaine, à la suite de tensions entre la population locale et une unité de Socfin, l’investisseur international en agrobusiness.

Thirty peaceful protesters were arrested in Sahn Malen, Sierra Leone for blocking access to oil palm plantations owned by Socfin, which they accuse of grabbing their lands.

La police a arrêté des manifestants opposés à l’accord foncier de Socfin en Sierra Leone. Les parties prenantes devraient se mettre à la table des négociations.

Since Monday evening more than a hundred land owners are blocking the Socfin operation area

L’entretien a porté sur la nécessité d’avoir des équipes de sensibilisation en région forestière afin d’amener les paysans à comprendre l’urgence d’acquisition de domaines qui impulseront le développement agricole.

On March 5, 2011 in the presence of armed security forces the lease agreement was signed against payments from 173,000,000.00 Leones stacked on a table and paid to those signing the agreement.

Political turmoil over Sierra Leone MP's nationwide broadcast inciting the people of Malen Chiefdom against the Government and the local Chiefs for having entered into a land deal with Luxembourg-based SOCFIN.

Investment involves a 40-year lease agreement for the establishment of over 16,000 acres of an oil palm project.

Interview with Elisha Kartini of the Indonesian Peasant Union

Contract on the investment of rubber and agro-industry plantation between the Govt of Cambodia and KCD (SOCFIN) of 8 October 2008