Amazon Palm: Global brands continue to source palm oil from Amazon destroyers Agropalma & BBF

Major international brands sourcing palm oil from Brazilian plantations linked to violence, torture and land fraud. Global supermarket brands Ferrero, ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Danone, Ferrero, Hershey’…

PalmWatch: A Tool to Hold Palm Oil Greenwashers to Account

A groundbreaking open-source tool by the University of Chicago called PalmWatch, shines a light on the darkest parts of the palm oil industry. PalmWatch is a free web-based tool that reveals links …

Paraquat: Banned in EU, Destroying Lives of Palm Oil Workers in Indonesia

The dangerous pesticide Paraquat is banned in the EU however continues to destroy the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia. Read this story below originally published in Geographic Mag…

Danone

Savvy consumers have been pressuring French Dairy multinational Danone for decades to cease using deforestation palm oil. Yet they actually haven’t stopped this. From their website: ‘Da…

Monsanto Roundup trial win overturned by Oregon court

The case at the heart of the new ruling is one of more than 100,000 brought in US courts.

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.

Indonesian court acquits former official in grisly palm oil slavery case

JAKARTA: An Indonesian court has acquitted a former government official accused of human trafficking after people were found in cages near his palm oil plantation, a ruling the country’s rights body said on Tuesday signalled impunity for state actors…

Life and death in a banana civilization

Are abuse, corruption and violence still inherent in multinational capitalism?

ASEAN Environmental Rights Declaration Needs Transparency

An Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) working group should show it is genuinely interested in engaging with civil society if it wants to produce an effective environmental rights declaration, as it resumes drafting today in Kuala Lumpur, …

Kwara communities suffer deforestation, land degradation after departure of White Zimbabwe farmers

In 2004, some displaced white farmers from Zimbabwe arrived in the agrarian communities in the Shonga district of Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State.

Tree planting offset project in Sierra Leone: USD 2.5 million from BP but no community consent | World Rainforest Movement

A report documents how a tree planting carbon project in Port Loko, Sierra Leone is violating the country’s community rights laws and risks locking families into 50-year contracts. The British oil company BP has already paid USD 2.

The hidden exploitation behind clean energy's cobalt demand

Activists are raising awareness about the exploitation of Black workers and resources in the Congo, driven by the demand for cobalt used in clean energy technologies.Adam Mahoney reports for Capital B.

Palm oil in Brazil: Return stolen community land, end the violence!

Oil palm plantations are spreading like wildfire across the eastern Brazilian Amazon. But local communities are standing up to the palm oil industry’s brutality and sweeping land grabs, demanding the return of their ancestral lands and calling on the…

The global land grab is still taking place, landmark conference finds - Institute of Development Studies

Major land sales organised by states and businesses continue to cause problems for rural communities and indigenous groups, a landmark conference in Colombia has found.

The Other Americans: Child Labor, the Backbone of the Guatemalan Economy

The practice of paying children low wages for physically demanding work benefits the economic elite while forcing those in poverty to attempt to migrate to the United States.

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

JAKARTA — Briantama Asmara first visited the village of Kais in Indonesian Papua, on the island of New Guinea, in 2017 as an university researcher.

A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it - resilience

Securing land and preventing land grabbing must go hand-in-hand with inclusive, redistributive forms of economic development.

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 by

Eyewitness Story by Dr Setia Budhi: The Last Village

A lone Dayak village in Borneo surrounded by palm oil plantations has held out for 14 years and resisted corporate infiltration by global palm oil giants. My name is Dr Setia Budhi, I am a Dayak et…

Ecuador: Stop land grabbing and racial discrimination for palm oil!

Communities in northern Ecuador are fighting back against land grabbing and deforestation by the palm oil industry.

Oil palm in Latin America : monoculture and violence – CADTM

The global oil palm craze Oil palm plantations are rapidly gaining ground in Latin America, driving communities from their lands and causing deforestation, violence, and poverty. Global…

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Amazon Palm: Global brands continue to source palm oil from Amazon destroyers Agropalma & BBF

Major international brands sourcing palm oil from Brazilian plantations linked to violence, torture and land fraud. Global supermarket brands Ferrero, ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Danone, Ferrero, Hershey’…

Unwrapping the Truth of the Chocolate Industry: A Bitter Reality Behind Easter Eggs | The Bubble

On average in the UK, we consume about 3 chocolate bars a week, and this increases during Easter for obvious reasons.

Air pollution from palm oil deforestation is a human rights issue affecting everyone in Asia

Forest-fire haze drifting from Indonesia to neighbouring countries every dry season has eluded efforts to curb it. Land clearing by burning is prohibited in Indonesia and Malaysia. However, penalis…

L’Oreal

‘Our goal is by 2020 to have none of our products linked to deforestation.’ L’Oreal’s website statement on palm oil This target has been and gone. Still, enormous environmen…

Mondelēz

Despite the virtue-signalling of the palm oil certification body the RSPO, Mondelez’s so-called “sustainable” palm oil is linked to 37.000ha of palm oil deforestation since 2016 (…

DRC : European development banks reportedly facilitated illegal oil palm plantation expansion and land claims - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Child labour, forced labour and debt bondage are still a reality – even for ‘sustainable’ palm oil

According to a new report from the Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) at the International Labour Organization (ILO). About 80% of the world’s poor live in rural areas where they face a …