Cameroon

This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon.

Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them

Entre déficit d’information, opacité dans les transactions et l’accès insuffisant à la justice, les populations sont généralement abusées.

"Les gens parlent d'accaparement des terres [mais] je dirais que la Socapalm a restitué des terres à l'État camerounais," déclare Michel Deumega Noulowe, PCA de la Socapalm

Since April, communities and activists in Cameroon, Cambodia, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have also staged direct protest actions against subsidiaries of Socfin, one of the world's largest independent plantation owners with 150,000 hectares of rubber and oil palm in several African and Southeast Asian countries.

Activists called Thursday for French conglomerate Bollore to return land, or compensate farmers, over disputed concessions for plantations in Cambodia and three African countries.

It is SEFE’s assessment that the Herakles project was simply a poorly conceived project, badly managed, in the wrong place.

On Thursday the 4th of June, people from Cameroon, the Ivory Coast and activists from the Conféderation Paysanne, will disrupt the AGM of the Bolloré group in Puteaux, outside Paris.

Jeudi 4 juin, des Camerounais, des Ivoiriens et des militants de la Confédération Paysanne vont perturber l’AGe du groupe Bolloré à Puteaux.

Présentation de Patrice Levang (IRD, UMR GRED)

Et Maintenant Nos Terres suit la trajectoire de trois héros de la résistance paysanne contre les accaparements de terre en Afrique.

Le 27 mai, l’assemblée générale de la Socfin se tient au Luxembourg alors que des rassemblements des riverains privés de terres par les plantations de la Socfin revendiquent leurs droits.