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- Liberian Town Chief talks about Sime Darby
- October 2012 interview with the town chief of Momblitaa, in Bopolu District, Gbarpolu County. Momblitaa is located directly the concession area allocated by the Liberian government to Malaysian palm oil company, Sime Darby. According to the contract and the concession map, Momblitaa can be encircled with palm trees and lose access to farmland and forest resources at any time the company decides to develop the land. The contract was signed without the knowledge or input of communities like Momblitaa, despite containing terms that grant the company nearly 700,000 acres for a renewable term of 63 years.
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Report: Uncertain Futures - The impacts of Sime Darby on communities in Liberia
- A report outlining the impacts of Sime Darby's operations on communities in Liberia
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Sustainable Development Institute Response to Sime Darby
- In order to propose a solution to the current crisis rather than continue to dwell on the problems, SDI offered a three-point plan for the government, companies, and communities. Unfortunately, rather than engaging with the substance of SDI’s proposal, Malaysian oil palm producer Sime Darby chose to attack our credibility and make a series of false allegations about SDI and its supporters at Friends of the Earth.
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Sime Darby's Response to Uncertain Futures Report
- Sime Darby reply to the findings in the Uncertain Futures report.
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Letter from Superintendent of Gbarpolu County, Allen Gbowee
- Letter from Superintendent of Gbarpolu County, Allen Gbowee sweeping aside the concerns of the communities and the Sustainable Development Institute on the flimsy pretext that the concerns are 'bad for development'.
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Community statement
- A statement by Community Members affected by Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Concessions clarifying the background to the situation and outlining the way forward.
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Civil Society Organisation statement
- In response to recent developments in Liberia’s agricultural sector, a coalition of Liberian civil society organizations offer a formal statement on events that have transpired in the past few years. Liberia presently finds itself embroiled in an international controversy over the allocation of huge concessions to foreign oil palm concessions, with numerous observers commenting on the troubling circumstances faced by communities whose land was leased away without their consent.
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AGRA’s Technology Push in Africa
- Friends of the Earth International describes the flaws with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a programme largely funded by the Bill Gates Foundation. This commentary argues that AGRA's corporate agenda risks compounding the problems it aims to solve. The Foundation's programmes may marginalize the vital role of women in traditional societies and lift control of seeds and farm management from community to corporate level.
- Stop threats to Nigerian environmentalist Odey Oyama
- Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific (FoE APac): statement on the duplication of the Four Rivers Project in Thailand
- Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific(FoE APac) is very much concerned that the Korean government is distorting the true consequences of the Korean Four Rivers Project to win a contract for a similar project in Thailand. It is also regrettable that South Korean environmental NGOs who have been critical of this project were described as "unpatriotic" and "anti-state" in a Korean Cabinet meeting last January 15th.
