Sierra Leone

Comment nourrir le « 1 % »
- GRAIN
- 07 October 2014
L'irruption dans l'agrobusiness d'un milliardaire indien de l'informatique donne une image inquiétante du rôle actuel de la finance dans l'agriculture
Feeding the 1 percent
- GRAIN
- 07 October 2014
An IT billionaire's foray into agribusiness paints a disturbing picture of today's farmland financiers.
Mbonjo: la malédiction de l’huile de palme au Cameroun
- Info Afrique
- 28 August 2014
Les populations riveraines des plantations de la Société des Palmeraies du Cameroun mènent une bataille tous azimuts pour faire respecter leurs droits violés impunément.
Projet d'agrocarburants en Sierra Léone : Les propriétaires fonciers exigent une renégociation des contrats de location des terres
- PPP
- 14 July 2014
Depuis mi-mai l’entreprise suisse Addax Bioenergy produit des agrocarburants en Sierra Leone, mais il règne une insatisfaction liée aux contrats de location des terres.
The Freetown Declaration
- Green Scenery
- 24 June 2014
180 citizens of Sierra Leone propose measures to combat land grabbing at the National Conference on Land and the Constitution in Freetown.
SiLNoRF and Bread For All release 2014 Annual Monitoring Report on the Addax Bioenergy Project in Sierra Leone
- SiLNoRF
- 24 June 2014
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
We harvest–you profit: Investors and locals get a raw deal from African Land Ltd.
- Oakland Institue
- 18 June 2014
UK-based company uses the idea of helping African communities, together with deception around yields and profits, to lure investors–including retired individuals–into handing over their life savings.
Investing in Frontier Africa with Paddy Docherty, CEO, Phoenix Africa (Video)
- African Business Central
- 13 June 2014
Phoenix Africa CEO Paddy Docherty interviewed by the FT This is Africa, about frontier investing in Africa.
Land-grabbing threatens our security - Kono Mayor
- Awoko
- 02 June 2014
Mayor of Sierra Leone's Kono City, Sahr Emerson Laminah, says the increasing rate of land-grabbing is a menace and nightmare in the district that has the potential for creating confusion in the country.
Willful blindness at the World Bank
- Oakland Institute
- 10 April 2014
As the spring meetings of the World Bank get under way, 180 organizations demand that the World Bank end its Doing Business rankings and its support of the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world’s poorest people.
L'aveuglement volontaire de la Banque Mondiale
- Oakland Institute
- 10 April 2014
Alors que les réunions de printemps de la Banque Mondiale vont s’ouvrir, 180 groupes demandent que la Banque mette fin à ses classements Doing Business et à ses activités soutenant l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles.
Land grabbing for agriculture is causing conflict in southern, Sierra Leone
- Development Diary
- 17 Mar 2014
Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.