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.

Bulletin articles 15 May 2017

Women and Traditional Oil Palm: A Struggle for Life

Bulletin articles 4 April 2017

Forest in India’s North East

Bulletin articles 7 February 2017

Main initiatives to expand tree plantations in Latin America, Africa and Asia

Publications 3 November 2016

Land conflicts and shady finances plague DR Congo palm oil company backed by development funds

The report is also available in German, in Lingala and Swahili.

Bulletin articles 13 July 2016

Peasant mobilizations in Cameroon

Bulletin articles 13 July 2016

DRC: Communities mobilise to free themselves from a hundred years of colonial oil palm plantations

Bulletin articles 11 December 2015

Burning Season In Indonesia What have industrial plantations and the Indonesian State done to the islands' forests?

Bulletin articles 11 December 2015

Banking on biodiversity in Sabah, Malaysia

Bulletin articles 9 November 2015

Why the RSPO facilitates land grabs for palm oil

**This article is based on a conversation between Winnie Overbeek, the international coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement, and GRAIN on September 2014, which was published by GRAIN at “Planet palm oil”. The information has been updated for this article.