Sierra Leone

Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa

As the escalating climate crisis threatens access to water for millions across Africa, Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa unveils the devastating impact of large-scale agricultural plantations on the right to water on the continent. Since the 2007-2008 food crisis, Africa has been the primary destination of private international investors for large-scale agriculture schemes...

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Menace sur les eaux africaines : comment l’expansion de l’agriculture industrielle assèche l’Afrique

Organic Cocoa in Sierra Leone

Location: Kailahun and Kenema Districts Small-scale, resource-poor farmers organize fair trade grower cooperatives to market certified organic cocoa exports from post-war Sierra Leone.

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Cacao 'Bio' en Sierra Leone

We Harvest--You Profit: African Land Ltd's Land Deal in Sierra Leone

From rising food prices to growing demand for biofuel, the current obsession for agricultural land borders on speculative mania as private companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, and sovereign wealth funds join the land rush looking for lucrative deals in the developing world. An estimated 500 million acres, an area about ten times the size of Britain, has been bought or leased in the developing world in the last decade. The social,...

World Bank's Bad Business in Sierra Leone

Since 2004, the World Bank has provided continuous “investment climate advisory services” to Sierra Leone. Business reforms and Bank-piloted programs such as Sierra Leone Business Forum and the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency led to the World Bank classifying Sierra Leone among “the top 15 economies that improved their business regulatory environment the most” since 2005 and rank the country third in the regional “Protection...

Farmers Make Their Voices Heard on Large Land Investments in Sierra Leone

The Oakland Institute is proud to have sponsored the first ever assembly of communities impacted by large-scale foreign land investments in Sierra Leone. Between April 1-4, 2012 farmers, small land owners, women, youth, and elders assembled in Freetown to have their voices heard and strategize a way forward. Joan Baxter, Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute reports from the meeting.

Sierra Leone

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Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa

Organic Cocoa in Sierra Leone

We Harvest--You Profit: African Land Ltd's Land Deal in Sierra Leone

World Bank's Bad Business in Sierra Leone

Farmers Make Their Voices Heard on Large Land Investments in Sierra Leone

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Press Releases and Public Statements

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil: 19 years is enough

Socfin/Bolloré Plantations: Rising Profits, Ongoing Repression

Un nouveau rapport révèle la menace que font poser les grandes plantations agricoles sur l'accès à l'eau en Afrique

Open Letter to His Excellency, Dr Julius Maada Bio President of the Republic of Sierra Leone

Stop Land Grabbing by SOCFIN in Sierra Leone!

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Videos & Audio

Agricultural Investment or Land Grab in Sierra Leone?

Agricultural Investment or Land Grab in Sierra Leone?

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Sierra Leone : les déboires judiciaires des militants anti-Socfin

Procès Bolloré Contre Bastamag: "On Veut Instrumentaliser Votre Justice!"

Liberté de la Presse : le Groupe Bolloré Peut-il Museler les Journalistes ?

Land Campaigners Criticise World Bank Doing Business and Benchmarking of the Business of Agriculture in Africa

Two foreigners shot at land protest at Socfin plantation in Pujehun, Sierra Leone

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Documentation and Contracts

Report of the Technical Committee on the Malen Chiefdom Land Dispute in Pujehun District

MALOA Grievances of Land Owners

Documentation for African Land Ltd

Malen Land Owners Association Statement

SOCFIN Documentation

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