Golden Agri Resources

Liberia: the growth of a new palm oil frontier
- Guardian
- 20 October 2016
Golden Veroleum Liberia is building one of the largest palm oil plantations in the civil-war scarred country, bringing jobs but dividing communities
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum bulldozes religious sites in Liberia, protected by armed police
- Global Witness
- 20 October 2016
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum has bulldozed religious sites in southeast Liberia and has paid police armed with assault rifles to protect its plantations, according to a new Global Witness exposé.
Les communautés font entendre leurs voix dans les discussions au sujet de l’huile de palme
- FPP
- 04 October 2016
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
Au Liberia, les « sans terres » attendent toujours la loi qui reconnaîtra leurs droits
- Le Monde
- 22 July 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.
'We want our land back': Liberian communities speak out about big palm oil
- Mongabay
- 10 August 2015
“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
Palm oil company is accused of exploiting Liberia’s Ebola crisis
- New York Times
- 01 August 2015
Golden Veroleum has denied using the Ebola crisis to take advantage of Liberian communities but local officials and en disagree.
Palm oil land grab during Liberian ebola crisis caused abuses
- TeleSur
- 23 July 2015
Massive land grabs in Liberia by a major oil palm company at the peak of the Ebola outbreak have had a hand in the harassment and violence faced by Liberians speaking out against palm oil expansion, a new report released Thursday claims.
Liberia: une firme accusée d'exploiter Ebola
- Le Figaro
- 23 July 2015
L'ONG Global Witness a accusé aujourd'hui l'entreprise d'huile de palme Golden Veroleum de profiter de l'épidémie Ebola au Libéria pour doubler la taille de sa plantation.
Palm sustainability group puts expansion ban on Golden Agri unit
- Reuters
- 11 May 2015
A palm oil industry body orders one of the world's major producers to stop buying or developing new plantations in Indonesia, in a dispute seen as a test case on expansion by agribusiness firms versus local land rights.
Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation and land grabs
- Guardian
- 30 April 2015
It’s right to hold destructive palm oil companies to account, but until we look to the organisations funding their activities we’re missing an important part of the puzzle.
Criticism of GAR and Wilmar African oil palm projects highlight global ‘no-deforestation' challenges
- Mongabay
- 16 April 2015
Those keen to see an end to years of environmental destruction and see genuine change in the behavior of major palm oil producers and suppliers feel there is still a lot to be mistrusting of.
Harmful social and environmental impacts of Liberia palm oil project exposed
- FPP
- 02 April 2015
Golden Veroleum and Golden Agri-Resource’s palm oil operations in Liberia are compounding poverty and food insecurity by taking land without community consent and making hollow promises of development benefits, says new report.

Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia