Liberia: How Challenging the Powerful Global Palm Oil Industry Forced a Liberian Lawyer into Exile

Apr 29, 2019 | Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz
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In 2010, Liberia’s government signed a 65-year concession agreement to develop over 543,000 acres of land with Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a subsidiary of the Singapore-listed company Golden Agri-Resources. Yet the company was immediately accused of clearing community forests and desecrating burial grounds and sacred sites without notifying residents or adequately compensating them.