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Deal #2371 Version #57960

Sierra Leone

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Created at

2013-02-15

Last update

2021-02-10

Last full update

2024-08-14

Former land owner (not by constitution)

Former land owner

Private (smallholders), Community

Comment on former land owner

The government transferred the land to the company with a whole host of unresolved issues. Private land which is leased was previously known as Salin Malen Oil Palm Estate

Former land use

Smallholder agriculture, Shifting cultivation

Comment on former land use

SOCFIN transforming a traditional bush fallow agricultural system into a large-scale industrial palm oil monoculture. This has had serious impacts on the biodiversity of fauna and flora in the chiefdom, leading to a drastic decline in mammal species and medicinal plants in particular.

Former land cover

Cropland