Community struggles against oil palm company Feronia-PHC in the DR Congo
In 2009, the global food corporation Unilever sold its palm oil subsidiary...
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Thailand’s imposition of National Parks: The Indigenous Karen People’s struggle for their forests and survival
Indigenous Karen People from Bang Kloi returned to their ancestral home in the Kaeng Krachan forests, after years of dispossession due to the creation of a National Park. Karen communities are mobilizing in solidarity to the Bang Kloi communities’ right to return home.
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The Indigenous Kinggo’s Struggle to Defend Papua’s Customary Forest
The Korindo Group cleared Kinggo’s Indigenous People’s forests for its industrial oil palm plantations. Petrus Kinggo and other community leaders were persuaded to give up customary forest land with misleading and false promises. Now they are fighting against the FSC-certified Korindo.
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Resistance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in West and Central Africa
Communities in West and Central Africa are facing the impacts of industrial oil palm plantations. With the false promise of bringing ‘development’, corporations, backed up with government support, have been granted millions of hectares of land for this expansion.
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Predatory mining in Venezuela: The Orinoco Mining Arc, enclave economies and the National Mining Plan
The crisis in Venezuela from 2013 to 2021 has caused the collapse of a nation that was built around oil over the last 100 years. This has created a situation characterized by the emergence of mining-dominated predatory extractivism.
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Why Reject the Privatization of Customary Land
For capitalists, the customary and collective land tenure systems are obstacles to wealth creation and the accumulation of profit. There has been a strong pressure for formalizing private property land rights for easing its sale and lease for commercial use. This article shows outlines why this push must stop now!
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