Sime Darby

Industrial palm oil investors struggle to gain foothold in Africa
- Mongabay
- 23 September 2019
Twenty-seven concessions intended for industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa have either failed or been abandoned in the last decade.
Le producteur malaisien d’huile de palme Sime Darby veut quitter le Liberia, d’ici la fin 2019
- Agece Ecofin
- 02 September 2019
Sur 220 000 hectares de palmeraies prévues, seulement 10 000 hectares ont été plantés jusqu’ici.
To stop destruction of Liberia’s rainforest, he put his life on the line
- e360
- 18 June 2019
Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests.
The nature of social justice advocacy and local resistance to land concessions in Liberia
- Front Page Africa
- 11 June 2019
The sustained advocacy by communities affected by large land deals and civil society for change to the policies and laws governing land administration have resulted in departures from the historical norms on land rights and tenure security.
‘We come from the earth’: Q&A with Goldman Prize winner Alfred Brownell
- Mongabay
- 07 June 2019
The jobs and development promised to rural communities by investors who inked deals with the Liberian government in the late 2000s have failed to materialize in the wake of land disputes and conflicts.
Le Liberia et Sime Darby, le grand désenchantement ?
- Agence Ecofin
- 22 February 2019
L’entreprise qui a signé en 2009 un contrat de concession de 63 ans portant sur 220 000 ha, examinerait actuellement un désengagement de ses opérations dans l’oléagineux et le caoutchouc, rapporte Reuters.
Sime Darby Plantation considers exiting West Africa palm oil operations -sources
- Reuters
- 22 February 2019
Sime Darby, the world’s biggest oil palm planter by land holdings, is considering exiting its palm and rubber operations in Liberia
NGO calls for regulator of agriculture concessions
- FrontPageAfrica
- 29 January 2019
Save My Future Foundation is calling for a separate regulator for large-scale concessions in Liberia it says will guarantee the rights of rural communities, protect concessionaires and increase government revenue.
Major foreign company to sell out investment amid troubling conditions
- FrontPageAfrica
- 23 January 2019
Sime Darby has put up its oil plantation in Liberia on sale after failing to acquire all 220,000 hectares of land the government promised it as stated in a concession agreement signed about a decade ago.
S’attaquer aux causes profondes de la déforestation au Liberia
- Commodafrica
- 18 June 2018
Ou $2 milliards de greenwashing ?
Au Liberia, la population veut voir enfin reconnus ses droits sur la terre
- AFP
- 21 February 2018
Les organisations de défense des populations craignent que la nouvelle loi foncière ne soit vidé de sa substance, après avoir été considérablement amendé en septembre 2017 par l’Assemblée nationale, puis bloqué au Sénat.
Sime Darby's Africa ambitions stall pending new deforestation rules
- Reuters
- 19 February 2018
Sime Darby Plantation has planted only 10,000 hectares in Liberia and has not laid a seed in two years, stalled by uncertainties over new environmental standards.