SOCFIN

Cameroun : Socapalm et Hevecam: Deux ennemies jurées des communautés villageoises
- Panorama Papers
- 18 October 2022
Les riverains accusent les mastodontes de l’agriculture extensive de spoliation de terre et leur mauvais traitement des riveraines.
Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land
- Mekong Eye
- 17 October 2022
In Cambodia, the Bunong people’s sacred forest became a rubber plantation as the government took their commune’s land and leased it to French firm Socfin-KCD and its Cambodian private partner.
Nigeria: Villages once again being torched for palm oil
- Rainforest Rescue
- 12 October 2022
On September 2nd, security forces looted and burned down houses in the Nigerian village of Agbede – a further chapter in the conflict between local people and the Okomu Oil Palm plantation company, reports Rainforest Rescue
Les riveraines du Cameroun exigent l'annulation de la RSPO de la Socapalm
- 21 September 2022
Nous venons vous faire tenir ce jour du 21 septembre 2022, qui marque la journée internationale de la lutte contre les monocultures d'arbres, la déclaration contre la RSPO écrite à Edéa, lors de la rencontre natonale des femmes riveraine de monoculture du Cameroun.
Huile de palme : la certification des plantations de la Socapalm vivement contestée
- Ecomatin
- 19 September 2022
La RSPO a reconnu les infractions commises par Socapalm dans le cadre de ses activités, à la suite des dénonciations faites par des médias étrangers en 2020 et en 2021, mais lui a tout de même délivré des certifications pour nombre de ses plantations, au grand dam des Ong nationales et internationales qui exigent leur annulation.
As a Cameroon palm oil firm gets RSPO certified, it’s also found in breach
- Mongabay
- 09 September 2022
Fresh controversy has emerged over the leading certification scheme for sustainable palm oil after a verification mission exposed ongoing issues around certified oil palm plantations in Cameroon.
RSPO verification mission shows Socfin certifications are unjustified
- FoE Netherlands
- 25 August 2022
Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.
Town Chief remanded over theft at SOCFIN
- Politico Sierra Leone
- 24 August 2022
The Town Chief of Henai Village in Malen Chiefdom was remanded at the Pujehun Correctional Centre in Southern Sierra Leone after he was accused of stealing palm kernel from the plantation of SOCFIN Agricultural Company.
Combat pour la terre
- Synaparcam
- 13 August 2022
Vidéo produite par la Synaparcam sur les injustices de la Socapalm, filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré
New laws of the land: Sierra Leone reshapes environmental battleground
- NYT
- 09 August 2022
The West African nation will let communities veto mining, farming and industrial projects. Activists say the legislation is a progressive landmark. At least one investor calls it unworkable.
Cameroun/Revendications : à Mbonjo, la population déterminée à déraciner la Socapalm
- Ndengue
- 05 August 2022
Le 1er août 2022, les habitants du village Mbonjo, à l’initiative de la Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun (Synapacam), se sont mobilisés pour contester l’occupation de leurs sites sacrés.
Major investor challenges Sierra Leone’s landmark land bill
- Politico SL
- 29 July 2022
An official of the giant oil palm company, Socfin, says the new Customary Land Rights Bill which is before Parliament, will make foreign investment in agriculture totally impossible when it becomes fully operational.