Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION
Oil Palm: The Expansion of Another Destructive Monoculture
By Ricardo Carrere
GENERAL ARTICLES
Oil palm and soybean: Two
paradigmatic deforestation cash crops
Monocultures: The symbol of an outdated model
Oil-palm plantations: No sustainability possible with Paraquat
The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis
AFRICA
Uganda
BIDCO oil palm plantations at the cost of pristine rainforests in Bugala
Oil palm plantations that brought high winds and low wages
AMERICA
Colombia
The hard life of oil palm plantation workers
Anti-trade union policy in oil palm plantations
Oil palm plantation project threatens biodiversity in the Chocó
Forestry as a business
Expansion of the oil palm in a framework of Human Rights violation
Oil palm plantations on usurped communal lands
Ecuador
Oil palm and forestry companies in the Chocó bio-region
Mexico
Who benefits from oil palm in Chiapas?
Peru
The Amazon forest threatened by oil palm plantation projects
ASIA
Cambodia
Rubber and palm oil plantations impact on local communities
Indonesia
Good news from Indonesia on oil palm!!!
Oil palm plantations at the heart of biodiversity destruction
WWF report links oil palm plantations to widespread deforestation
Palming the forest
Investing in disaster: the IFC and palm oil plantations
IMF and deforestation
The unhealthy smell of money in forest fires
A call to cancel plans to develop 3 million hectares of oil palm plantations
From oil palm plantations, with repression…
Oil palm plantations encroaching on communities’ traditional land
Malaysia
The plight of women workers in oil palm plantations
Women Plantation Workers Poisoned and Silenced
Sabah indigenous communities' struggle against logging and oil palm
plantations
Women plantations workers’ conditions in oil palm plantations
OCEANIA
Papua New Guinea
The impacts of British-promoted oil palm monocultures
Forests saved against logging and oil palm plantation
Oil palm "joint venture" for the benefit of rich companies
Customary Landowners' declaration on logging, mining and oil palm plantations
Local NGOs challenge World Bank loan for oil palm scheme
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