Palm Oil
The oil palm tree is native to West Africa. It is an important tree for forest-dependent communities, their cultures and their economies. However, large-scale oil palm monocultures for industrial production (oil and agrofuels) have been driving deforestation and land grabbing in Southeast Asia. More recently, oil palm monocultures are also driving destruction in Africa and Latin America.
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3 November 2016
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3 November 2016
The report is also available in German, in Lingala and Swahili.
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13 July 2016
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9 June 2016
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9 December 2014
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7 May 2014
The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action
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30 August 2013
Governments are opening the doors to corporations for planting vast areas of land with oil palm plantations. This trend is not only happening in West and Central African countries, but is even expanding to parts of Eastern Africa. Large scale oil palm plantations are already causing serious environmental and social impacts in some countries, resulting in loss of community rights over their territories.
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29 June 2009
