Malaysia

Grand Cape Mount County citizens have registered and documented their opposition to the provision of additional 15, 000 hectares to Sime Darby for cultivation of oil palms in Garwular and Golakonneh Districts.

The Key campaigner of Green Advocates, Cllr. Alfred Brownell has threatened a lawsuit against the government for allowing Sime Darby, an oil palm production company to operate in Cape Mount and Bomi Counties in violation of the citizens’ rights under the constitution of Liberia.

Le collectif Nopalme commence à avoir des contacts au Libéria, là où Sime Darby implante des palmiers à huile, à ce jour 10 000 hectares sur les 220 000 qu'il a reçus en concession.

World's largest agribusiness company would like to become a "mini UN" in Liberia.

Indonesia, the world's No.1 palm oil producer, signed into law a 2-year freeze on new permits that may prompt palm oil firms to seek new ways to grow supply to meet rising demand from India and China, such as buying more land in Africa

In 2009 Sime Darby Plantation acquired a 63-year concession covering 220,000ha in Liberia that it will developed into oil palm and rubber plantations

Company also in talks with the government of Cameroon on a project estimated to be worth $2.1 billion.

Southeast Asian palm oil firms like Malaysia's Sime Darby and Singapore's Golden Agri Resources are backpacking to Africa, in what could be the planet’s next trend-setter in inter-continental resource trade.

Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.

It appears that the Bomi County operations of Sime Darby are being hindered as locals there are reportedly holding back lands leased by the government of Liberia to the company.

Le groupe malasien Rimbudan Hijau vient d’annoncer son intention de se lancer dans l’huile de palme après l'acquisition de milliers d’hectares de terres coutumières dans la province de Nouvelle-Bretagne orientale.

Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia.