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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Bulletin articles 13 October 2015

Brazil– mining company VALE promoting oil palm in Pará: Impacts of the "green economy"

Bulletin articles 15 September 2015

Palm oil concessions for logging: the case of Herakles Farms in Cameroon

Bulletin articles 6 May 2015

Intensification of land grabbing and more concentration of land ownership in the era of "green capitalism": News from Indonesia

Bulletin articles 23 February 2015

Guatemala: Grassroots organizations criticise palm oil roundtable consultation  

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Bulletin articles 9 December 2014

India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk

Bulletin articles 9 December 2014

DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors

Bulletin articles 26 September 2014

10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations

Bulletin articles 26 September 2014

Honduras: Criminalization of the Garifuna people defending their territory from the advance of the African palm

Action alerts 17 June 2014

Land grabber's paradise: Cameroonian environmentalist faces trial, while charges against his attackers mysteriously "disappear"

Action alerts 13 May 2014

Support the Jogbahn Clan in Liberia: Tell Equatorial Palm Oil NO means NO!

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Bulletin articles 7 May 2014

The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action 

Bulletin articles 7 May 2014

RSPO: fake promises promoting further oil palm plantations expansion