Au Liberia, les communautés locales s'inquiètent de l'absence d'integration du régime foncier dans les principes directeurs de la Tropical Forest Alliance 2020
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country
- Equal Times
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28 September 2016
Liberia has long been plagued by disputes over land for farming and forestry including double land sales, corporate land grabbing, local disputes over territory, and equal gender access to land.
- Mongabay
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14 September 2016
The current economic model of transferring land to foreign investors on a massive scale fails to acknowledge the rights of rural communities to collectively own and manage their territories.
- Los Angeles Times
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29 August 2016
D'ici le 30 août, le Liberia devrait avoir voté une loi qui renforcerait le droit des communautés locales sur des "terres coutumières"
- CommodAfrica
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22 August 2016
Solange Bandiaky-Badji de L’ONG Rights and Ressources Initiative explique dans un entretien au Monde Afrique les enjeux de l’adoption d'un loi sur les droits fonciers, qui avait été présentée comme un modèle pour les autres pays de la région.
CSO Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia concerned by reports that draft law has been altered significantly behind closed doors, and calls on the legislature to immediately release the new draft for scrutiny by the public and civil society.
- CSO Working Group
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15 July 2016
L’échec de l’adoption d’une loi reconnaissant les droits des communautés rurales sur leurs terres ancestrales pourrait faire l’effet d’une étincelle dans un baril de poudre.
- Agence Ecofin
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14 July 2016
Entre le 1 et le 3 juin, des rassemblements massifs ont eu lieu au Cameroun et au Liberia pour demander le respect des droits des communautés locales par Socfin et Bolloré
More dissenting voices are being raised in West and Central African countries, as local communities and NGOs condemn land grabbing by industrial oil palm and rubber plantations company Socfin
Pour revendiquer leurs droits, les riverains des plantations Socfin-Bolloré s'organisent.
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.