Across Africa, corporations are grabbing community land and water - and nowhere more than in Liberia, where half the country has already been lost. But one community has shown it's possible to overcome intimidation, organize and resist.
… Fay | 7th May 2014 News Land Grabs Africa Farming Indigenous Peoples … the continent. Rather than support family farming and smallholder agriculture, private …
Liberia's Jogbahn Clan is at the forefront of efforts to resist the grab of Indigenous Peoples' land and forests for palm oil plantations. But according to the country's President, they are only 'harrassing and extorting' international investors.
… Siakor | 18th July 2014 News Food Farming Land Grabs Indigenous Peoples Liberia … impacts of the conversion from subsistence farming to large scale commercial agriculture, … agriculture. Smallholder agro-ecological farming and small-scale food production can …