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Divide and Intimidate: The Playbook of Palm Oil Landgrabs
The insidious playbook of palm oil companies “Promise, Divide, Intimidate and Coerce” reveals the 12 corrupt tactics used to grab community land in AfricaPalm Oil Detectives
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Why Do Forest and Land Fires Continue to Occur Even During the Wet Dry Season?
Although this year marks the onset of the wet dry season, forest and land fires continue to occur. These fires trigger the disaster of haze.Evy Rachmawati (PT Kompas Media Nusantara)
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Guatemala becomes the deadliest country for environmental defenders | Dialogue Earth
New Global Witness report shows over 80% of all environment-related killings last year occurred in Latin AmericaFermín Koop (对话地球)
Colonial Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua
A powerful new indigenous art exhibition has highlighted the tragic loss of #WestPapua’s cultural identity due to #deforestation for #palmoil and #sugarcane monoculture plantations. A situation per…Palm Oil Detectives
Mass Rally in Diphu Against ‘Corporate Land Grab’, Targets KAAC Chief
Karbi Anglong | Assam | Top Stories | The All Party Hill Leaders’ Conference (APHLC) on Wednesday staged a massive rally in Diphu, joined by Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP)PratidinTime News Desk (Pratidin Time)
#News: Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua’s UNESCO recognised #noken weaving for #palmoil and #sugarcane in #WestPapua. Reject corporate #landgrabbing for palm oil in when you shop! #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights #IndigenousRights
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Colonial Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua
A powerful new indigenous art exhibition has highlighted the tragic loss of #WestPapua’s cultural identity due to #deforestation for #palmoil and #sugarcane monoculture plantations. A situation per…Palm Oil Detectives
Violence for Palm Oil Against Peasant Communities in Honduras Meets Resistance
In the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras, peasant communities reclaiming ancestral lands face increasing violence and intimidation from armed groups linked to organised crime. The Dinant Corporatio…Palm Oil Detectives
The people versus Feronia: Fighting palm oil agrocolonialism in the Congo
This powerful #comic is by Didier Kassai and Dieudonne Botoko Kendewa is about a community in the #Congo 🇨🇩 living next to the #Feronia #palmoil plantation. They faced #violence and #landgrabbing f…Palm Oil Detectives
Snack giant PepsiCo allegedly sourced “sustainable” palm oil from razed Indigenous land in Peru
PepsiCo’s supply chain is linked to environmental and human rights violations in Peru, involving Amazon deforestation and Indigenous land invasion. For three years, palm oil from deforested S…Palm Oil Detectives
Palm Oil Workers Expose Industry Practices Resembling Colonialism
Palm Oil Workers Expose Industry Practices Resembling Colonialism | A coalition of palm oil workers in Indonesia has unveiled industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation, including land gr…Palm Oil Detectives
Socfin’s Destructive Empire: Palm Oil Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses in West Africa
A six-month investigation reveals Socfin’s exploitation of rubber and palm oil in Ghana and Nigeria, leading to deforestation, landgrabbing and human rights abuses. SOCFIN is a palm oil compa…Palm Oil Detectives
Violence for Palm Oil Against Peasant Communities in Honduras Meets Resistance
In the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras, peasant communities reclaiming ancestral lands face increasing violence and intimidation from armed groups linked to organised crime. The Dinant Corporatio…Palm Oil Detectives
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NGOs at the service of plundering territories: the Earthworm Foundation case | World Rainforest Movement
Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.www.wrm.org.uy
#Study finds #palmoil expansion in #WestPapua isn't just fuelling #deforestation but also colonialist-style #landgrabbing #violence and systematic erasure of #Indigenous #Melanesian cultures and languages. #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔☠️🩸🚜🔥🧐⛔️
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Socfin’s Destructive Empire: Palm Oil Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses in West Africa
A six-month investigation reveals Socfin’s exploitation of rubber and palm oil in Ghana and Nigeria, leading to deforestation, landgrabbing and human rights abuses. SOCFIN is a palm oil compa…Palm Oil Detectives
Australian start-up gains funding to replace palm oil with lab-grown alternatives
Levur has secured AUD$1.2 million (US$769,780) in funding to commercialize its lab-grown cosmetic oils. The company says it produces oils identical to natural products without any environmental impact using a yeast-fermentation process.Beatrice Wihlander (CNS Media.)
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Competition for Minerals Should Respect Rights and the Environment
As the role of minerals in global politics and energy transition grows, governments should ensure that the protection of human rights and the environment, and the need to tackle poverty and inequality, are an essential part of the conversation.Human Rights Watch
Don't be fooled by #soy 🥜 it's a key driver of #Amazon #deforestation 🇧🇷🇵🇪🇪🇨 and illegal #landgrabbing from #Indigenous tribes. Mostly it's used to feed the animals we eat 🤮 To fight #extinction and cruelty be #vegan #Boycott4Wildlife
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Demand for meat is driving deforestation in Brazil – changing the soy industry could stop it
For many people, soy as a commodity has a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food and meat alternatives. However don’t be fooled – crops of this pale legume are behind…Palm Oil Detectives