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La non rétrocession de terres, la profanation des sites sacrés et le non-respect des règles de la RSPO sont entre autres préoccupations auxquelles Agro-industrie font face les populations riveraines à ces entreprises agroindustrielles.

Les plaignants demandent, sur la base des résultats de la mission de vérification, que les certifications RSPO de Socfin soient annulées au Cameroun, mais aussi en Sierra Leone, au Nigeria et en Côte d’Ivoire

Des riverains crient au secours face à l’appétence foncière des entreprises installées sur leur patrimoine.

For more than a decade, some Bunong villagers have been trying to reclaim and gain legal recognition for their customary land that have been acquired by Luxembourg-based Socfin Group’s subsidiaries since 2007. Some details of the settlement were released this September, in a joint statement issued by the firms and community representatives who negotiated on behalf of 210 families in five villages.

Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber Corporation (Socfin group) and the Liberian government.

Les riverains accusent les mastodontes de l’agriculture extensive de spoliation de terre et leur mauvais traitement des riveraines.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.