The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Tenure of ...

Women in the districts of Bombali and Pujehun, affected by the large-scale land acquisition by multilateral companies, have called on the government to ensure inclusiveness in decision-making and good governance of ...

Includes history of the project, the scale down, the role of European DFIs (Development Finance Institutions), recommendations. The issues of concern and damages often expressed by a critical mass of the Addax ...

Includes Socfin in Sahn Malen, Pujehun District, lack of free, prior and informed consent, inadequate compensation for loss of land and crops, failure to mark boundaries of family land before clearing the land, ...

An 11 minute film illustrating how rural villagers in Sierra Leone are seeking to ensure justice. When a Chinese rubber company seized their forest and land they came together, used the law and won. Since then they ...

Includes an interview with Amanda Massaquoi, member of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in West and Central Africa, who is supporting women in Sierra Leone who are opposing the oil palm ...

Before the company’s arrival in 2011, the people of Ngovokpahun village had used their land to grow cocoa and other cash crops to help them pay for their children’s education. But when Italian Agriculture ...

The struggles continue for the communities displaced by the Addax Bioenergy project in Sierra Leone in 2008 and their situation is getting worse as the lands are handed over from one company to the next. There is an ...

Focuses on innovations in recognition, mapping and documentation of legitimate tenure rights by LEGEND and other pilot projects to address problems that resulted from weak due diligence in the planning of ...

Focuses on adjustments to investment plans and more inclusive approaches to business that engage local communities and small-scale farmers that were adopted by the companies involved in pilot projects. Includes key ...