SOCFIN

French agricultural firm, Socofin, which has a huge investment in Sierra Leone, has denied involvement in a recent controversial trip by a leading member of a pressure group challenging its activities in the country.

Dans la panique de la pandémie d’Ébola, des observateurs ont rapporté que pratiquement aucun secteur de la chefferie de Malen, dans le district de Pujehun, n’avait échappé aux griffes de la Socfin Agriculture Company (SAC).

As the ebola epidemic rages on, Socfin continues to grab land from the people of Malen in league with some chiefdom authorities.

Agronomes et vétérinaires sans frontières fait le point sur les groupes français qui achètent ou gèrent de grandes surfaces agricoles dans des pays étrangers.

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has cautioned the Edo State Government from going ahead with plans to allocate 410,000 ha of forest land belonging to community people to corporations

Governor of Edo State announces allocation of another 20,000 ha of land to SOCFIN's Okomu Oil Palm Plc and 50,000 hectares of land to Dangote Group for rice production.

Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.

One month after the confrontation between land owners in southern Sierra Leone and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company, Green Scenery published a 13-page report on the clamp down on community members who have been advocating for their rights to their land.

Sunny Ajele, talks about how life for the communities in Edo State Nigeria has changed with the expansion of the oil palm plantations by a SOCFIN subsidiary

Depuis un certain temps déjà, ceux qui travaillent avec les communautés locales dans le district de Pujehun tentent d’avertir le gouvernement et l’entreprise de la dégradation de la situation.

Police in Sierra Leone open fire on villagers gathered to express their grievances over the lease of 6,500 hectares of land to the Socfin Agricultural Company. Only the latest incident in a deteriorating situation.

La police sierra-léonaise a ouvert le feu, le 10 décembre, sur des manifestants armés, protestant contre un projet d'expansion d’un projet de culture d'huile de palme de la Société financière des caoutchoucs (Socfin), a déclaré un responsable de la police.