RRI Work and Resources in Liberia

RRI strengthens communities’ roles in negotiations and social audits, especially with regard to concessions and planned REDD investments. We also support implementation of the Community Rights Law, including the legalization, regulation and sustainable practices of small-scale millers. Throughout all of our projects, we encourage women’s active participation in forest governance.
 

Below you can find resources for Liberia listed by resource-type (i.e. News, Publications, Events).

Upcoming Events!

• Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders: Global Issues in Governance
  May 27, 2013 - Oaxaca, Mexico

Recent News

• Reuters: Exclusive: Resource Deals Audit Overshadows Liberia Anti-graft Push May 01, 2013
• All Africa: Liberia 'We Made Mistakes' - Sirleaf Admits Missteps in Gvl Concession, Intervenes in Sinoe April 30, 2013
• African Arguments: East African Communities Rising Against Land Acquisition April 24, 2013
• AllAfrica: Liberia: Ellen Wants Companies to Relinquish Lands April 08, 2013
• PRESSTV: Are African countries giving away too much land at the expense of their people? April 03, 2013
• Bloomberg: Asian Palm-Oil Planters head to West Africa April 02, 2013
• Forest Peoples Programme: Land reforms in Liberia must learn from and protect communities' customary land and resource rights March 25, 2013
• Reuters: Largest Liberian palm oil project is failing locals: study March 22, 2013
• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions February 22, 2013
• Africa-Asia Confidential: Farmers take on agribusiness February 14, 2013

Publications relating to Liberia

• FPP E-Newsletter December 2012 English
• FPP E-Newsletter December 2012 Bahasa
• PRESSTV: Are African countries giving away too much land at the expense of their people?
  
• Nourishing the Planet: New Reports Reveal the Human and Financial Costs of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
  
• Investments into the Agribusiness, Extractive, and Infrastructure Sectors of Liberia
• Bulletin d’information FPP: Décembre 2012
• FPP E-Newsletter deciembre de 2012 español
• Global Post: Investors who trample land rights risk bottom line: experts
• Agence France Presse: Investors trampling land rights risk bottom line: experts
• FERN: Improving Forest Governance
• Agence France Presse: Investir dans les terres des autres, un pari à haut risque
• YubaNet: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses
• New Agricultrualist: Ignoring land rights is an expensive mistake
• Liberian Civil Society Urges Oil Palm Companies to Respect Human Rights, Renegotiate thier Contracts, and Protect the Livelihoods of the Rural Poor
• Civil Society Coalition Statement on Oil Palm Concessions in Liberia
• AllAfrica: Liberia: SCFF Seeks Calm in Butaw - Calls for Balance in Land Protests & Investment Loss
• Lay of the land
• AllAfrica: Liberia: Illegal Arrest, Detention in Sinoe
• Global Post: Palm oil industry accused of land grabs in Liberia
  
• Le Figaro: Liberia: arrêtés pour avoir parler à l'AFP
  
• Public Agenda Online: Trouble Still In Sinoe
  
• Press Release: Arrests and Harassment of Community Leaders in Liberia Must Stop
• Update on Forest Tenure
• Les droits foestiers de femmes africaines
• African Women's Rights to Forests
• AllAfrica: Liberian Farmers Attribute Climate Change to Govt. Concession Policies
• 'Our Land, Our Lives'
• "Nuestra Tierra, Nuestras Vidas"
• «Notre Terre, Notre vie»
• Special Report by Financial Times: Palm oil producers face Africa challenges
• Special Report by Financial Times: Doing Business in Liberia
• La deforestación del continente africano
  
• The Complete Handbook on Pitsawing in Liberia
• Daily Observer: 50 Residents Get GPS Technology Knowledge
• Les Droits aux Ressources en Crise
• Rights to Resources in Crisis
• Republic of Liberia: Chain Saw Milling Regulation
• Liberia: The Plantation Blues
• Press Release: RRI Response to Sime Darby February 3rd accusation of "False and Inaccurate Reports on Liberian Operations"
• Tenure Data - Liberia
• Liberia
• Community Mapping
• Community Mapping
• Press Coverage for the Seeing People through the Trees Report Release
  
• Customary Practices and Forest Tenure Reforms in Africa - Status, Issues and Lessons
• Who Owns the Forests of Africa? An introduction to the forest tenure transition in Africa, 2002-2008
• 2008 Liberia: The Community Forest Rights Law: Where is it going?
• Conference Report: Africa Community Rights Network (ACRN) & World Rainforest Movement (WRM) International Conference on Community Rights & Natural Resources
• Africa Community Rights Network Statement
  
• Position Statement of CFDCs, CBOs, Women's Organizations, and Community Representatives attending the International Conference on Community Rights and Natural Resources
  

Past

• State of Rights and Resources 2012-2013: Landowners or Laborers? A panel on the rural development choices facing leaders of developing countries
  February 05, 2013 - London, UK
• 2nd Annual Conference on Community Rights and Forests
  April 27, 2010 - Monrovia, Liberia
• Third Annual Meeting of the Africa Community Rights Network (ACRN)
  April 27, 2010 - Monrovia, Liberia
• Community Rights Law with Respect to Forest Lands: Design and Implementation: Organized by Green Advocates
  April 04, 2008 - Monrovia, Liberia
• Alternative Models of Forest Tenure and Enterprise in Central and West Africa: Lessons and Opportunities
  April 03, 2008 - Monrovia, Liberia