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Hidden abuse: The persistence of slave labor within Southeast Asia’s palm oil industry
Lucrative as it is for multi-national corporations, the palm oil industry has incited numerous humanitarian concerns in recent years. Palm oil giants have increasingly acted at the expense of those em…
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When Wilmar finishes, we have no future left: New report on Nigerian palm oil land grabs
The oil palm tree is native to West Africa and palm oil, in its rawest form, is a staple of the West African diet. So, while it is new to Western consumers as an ingredient in roughly half of our pack…
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Mexico’s human rights record raises questions for California REDD policy
Friends of the Earth Mexico and Friends of the Earth U.S. sent a letter to California officials yesterday, urging them to forego any joint agreement with Mexico on climate change, carbon trading and…
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Exploitation and Empty Promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian Land Grab
Nigeria is a key frontier country for palm oil expansion. Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in southeastern Nigeria, and the co…
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Up in Smoke: Failures in Wilmar’s Promise to Clean Up the Palm Oil Business
This report shows that global palm oil companies Bumitama Agri and Wilmar International, backed by major U.S. and European investors, have created conditions that have allowed Indonesia’s devastatin…
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La gran apuesta REDD
Este enfoque alternativo ya ha sido propuesto a la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) por el gobierno boliviano sobre la base de las conclusiones de la Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos de 2010…
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Continuing to Exploit and Deforest: Wilmar’s Ongoing Abuses
Wilmar International is one of the largest palm oil companies in the world, and the largest palm oil refiner in Malaysia and Indonesia
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Land Grabbing, Palm Oil & Violence in Honduras
The case of Grupo Dinant
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The Green Economy, Forest Peoples and Territories
Rights violations in the state of Acre
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
Even as policies guiding timber exports fail to curtail deforestation, the world’s energy economy is demanding increased burning of biomass — meaning forests.