A 35 year-old resident of Gbar in Klay District, Bomi County has threatened to set himself ablaze for being terminated from the employ of the Sime Darby Company without benefits.
For the affected communities, this is a story of bad rather than “best practices”, an experience in which their “aspirations” as “stakeholders” were not at all addressed.
Workers at the Bomi plantation, who requested anonymity, said the blaze was started by suspected arsonists and had blazed for about two weeks before being brought under control.
That palm oil listed in the ingredients of your favorite candy bar or lipstick? More and more of it comes from forest and farmland razed by multinational corporations a world away.
- On Earth
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04 December 2013
New WRM video based on interviews with people from communities in Africa affected by the expansion of oil palm plantations.
European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.
More and more African governments give away land to companies as they wish, even if occupied by local smallholders. New report from Brot für die Welt looks at legal aspects in the palm oil sector .
Audit says Liberian government failed to fully apply its own laws when awarding land concessions to palm oil companies Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum and recommends urgent remedial action
- Global Witness
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22 May 2013
Liberia's silent land war has now become a war of words and placards with tension brewing daily either between individuals and families or companies and tribes or clans.
- FrontPageAfrica
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09 May 2013
Land conflicts are causing delays in Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum's oil palm plantation plans in Liberia.
- FrontPageAfrica
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05 May 2013
Suitable land for palm-oil cultivation is running out in top producers Malaysia and Indonesia, which now account for about 85 percent of the global output. Wilmar is among several companies searching for land in West and Central Africa.
Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia, present new report about their dispute with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby.
- Green Advocates & FPP
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25 Mar 2013