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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Feronia
Articles 9 March 2022

Development banks make shameless exit from a colonial land grab in the Congo

Declarations 12 October 2021

Declaración de la Red Mesoamericana frente a la Palma Aceitera

Only available in Spanish.

Articles 16 April 2020

Organisations ask Sierra Leone Government to move forward with resolution of the land conflict between plantation company Socfin and communities

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.
Declarations 12 November 2018

Statement: RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector

Declarations 12 September 2014

In view of the serious situation caused by expansion of Monocultures of African Palm in Honduras - International Declaration

Declarations 18 November 2013

Calabar Declaration

Declarations 24 November 2005

The Vitoria Statement in Support of the Struggles of Local Peoples Against Large-Scale Tree Plantations

The following Statement was issued on 24/11/05 in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil at an international meeting on building support for local communities against large-scale tree plantations and GMO trees. This meeting was co-sponsored by World Rainforest Movement, FASE-ES and Global Justice Ecology Project.