Aceite de Palma
La palma aceitera es originaria de África occidental. Su cultivo es importante para las comunidades que dependen de los bosques, para sus culturas y economías. Sin embargo, los monocultivos de palma aceitera a gran escala destinados a la producción industrial (aceite y agrocombustibles) han sido un agente de deforestación y acaparamiento de tierras en el sudeste asiático. Más recientemente, los monocultivos de palma aceitera también impulsan la destrucción en África y América Latina.
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10 May 2024
The president of the Tshopo provincial assembly supports the call of international NGOs demanding to pause a mediation process between the oil palm company PHC and communities affected by its oil palm plantations. Since 2018, the mediation has not addressed the communities’ demand for investigation of the (il)legality of the concessions at the basis of the companies palm oil business but has led to increased the violence and put community rights at the plantation sites in Lokutu and Boteka, in neighbouring Equateur province, at risk.
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6 May 2024
(Sólo en inglés) On 1 April 2024, eight representatives chosen by communities from Lokutu, in the Tshopo province of the DR Congo, to represent them in the mediation process with the oil palm company PHC presented a letter rejecting the outcome presented by the mediation.
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16 Abril 2020
Civil society organizations have welcomed the finalization of a report of a Technical Committee about a legal dispute between the multinational company Socfin and communities affected by the company’s oil palm plantations in the Malen Chiefdom in Sierra Leone. (Sólo en inglés y francés)