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Great #News: If #EUDR goes ahead at end of year, #cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast will be able to use bank cards to receive e-payments for their work clearing up fraudulent underpayment for their work #humanrights #workersrights #landrights #palmoil #cocoa #Boycottpalmoil @mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/lets-reduce-poverty-deforestation-via-greater-eudr-traceability-requirements-commentary/
Let's reduce poverty & deforestation via greater EUDR traceability requirements (commentary)
The EU’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) was hailed as a watershed in the fight to protect the world’s forests when it came into force in 2023.Erik Hoffner (Conservation news)
#News: #Dayak communities that succumb to selling their land often find themselves working as labourers on their ancestral lands for meagre wages. This economic exploitation and debt peonage is compounded by aggressive #landgrabbing by #palmoil giants #Boycottpalmoil #humanrights #workersrights #laborrights #Indonesia https://countercurrents.org/2024/05/a-lone-dayak-communitys-last-stand-against-palm-oil/
A Lone Dayak Community’s Last Stand Against Palm Oil| Countercurrents
The Dayak peoples of Borneo have been fiercely resisting the encroachment of palm oil plantations on their ancestral lands for many decades. This article byAthena (Countercurrents.org)