Liberia

Sime Darby Plantation completes sale of Liberia operations
- The Star
- 24 January 2020
Sime Darby has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc through completion of its sale to the Liberian company Mano Palm Oil Industries Ltd.
Charity calls on UK to prosecute British companies that violate human R rights in Liberia
- FrontPageAfrica
- 23 January 2020
A new report by Traidcraft Exchange finds that the UK-listed company Equatorial Palm Oil violated local townspeople’s right to their land in Liberia and are pushing them further into poverty.
Sime Darby au Liberia, c’est fini !
- Agence Ecofin
- 20 January 2020
Le malaisien Sime Darby a annoncé un accord de vente et achat de sa filiale libérienne, qui sous-exploitait une concession de 220 000 ha, à la Mano Palm Oil Industries Limited pour 1 $ symbolique.
Liberia's miracle oil brings farmers only empty promises
- The Guardian
- 03 January 2020
Liberia would be better off with smaller community-run plantations that could supply multinational firms’ thirst for palm oil and put the wealth into the community, says SDI
Sime Darby to sell Liberia plantation to local manufacturer
- Reuters
- 07 December 2019
Malaysia’s Sime Darby says it will sell its underperforming palm oil concession in Liberia to Mano Manufacturing Company (MANCO), Liberia’s largest manufacturer of household health and cleaning products.
Liberia: Regional oil palm stakeholders call for community inclusion in natural resource governance
- Front Page Africa
- 02 December 2019
Stakeholders attending a two-day regional dialogue on oil palm development in West Africa have called for the inclusion of local communities in oil palm development in the sub-region.
Enough is too much: The growing case for investors to drop Golden Agri-Resources (commentary)
- Mongabay
- 31 October 2019
One year after palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) were called out for illegal deforestation, land grabbing, and the destruction of critical wildlife habitats, and many ongoing abuses later things on the ground don’t look much better.
Liberia: EPO wants to expand its Palm Bay Estate plantations into forests in Grand Bassa
- SDI
- 29 October 2019
Several communities say that Equatorial Palm Oil is continuously intimidating, threatening and dividing communities into signing away their land.
Landless: How the Dutch development bank marginalises farmers
- Trouw
- 22 October 2019
The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm plantations in local communities. But the local communities are not welcoming these plantations. They want their land back.
Huile de palme : les ONGs contre le financement des agro-industriels
- VOA Afrique
- 10 October 2019
Déforestation et accaparement des terres au Cameroun par les agro-industriels du secteur de l’huile de palme, l’ONG Milieudefensie, pointe le doigt accusateur sur certaines banques néerlandaises et européennes.
Liberian and Indonesian communities report their grievances with Dutch bank ABN Amro
- Milieudefensie
- 07 October 2019
Community representatives, impacted by palm oil companies in Liberia and Indonesia have traveled to the Netherlands to convey their grievances with ABN Amro, the financier of those companies.
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.