Congo DR

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2019

• WWF in the DRC’s Salonga National Park: Torture, Murder and Gang-Rape

• Green discourses and deforestation

2018

• The untold suffering of women living in and around Feronia’s industrial oil palm plantations in the DRC

• Peasant communities and those dependent on the forests united in struggle

• Democratic Republic of Congo: Turning peasant lands once more into oil palm monocultures

• Congo Basin: The coming storm

2017

• Widespread abuse and rights violations funded by big conservation organizations

• Republic of Congo: “ATAMA Plantations is today a source of discontent for local communities and the entire nation”

• Ibi Bateke tree planting project in DRC: Sold as the success it never was

• FERONIA in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Harassment, violence and oppression

2016

• The Congo Basin: in the Sights of Capital

• Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing both people and biodiversity

• Land grabbing: Tactics used by European actors abroad

• Infrastructure, development and natural resources in Africa: A few examples from Cameroon

• DRC: Communities mobilise to free themselves from a hundred years of colonial oil palm plantations

• Congo Basin Rainforest Project: Communities leery of “Conservation Revolution”

2015

• Mineral extraction in the province of Nord-Kivu, DRC: present situation and analysis of environmental questions

• Large-scale logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Development of the extractive sector and impacts on communities and biodiversity in the countries of the Congo Basin

• Democratic Republic of Congo: “We need justice to be made”

2014

• The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action 

• DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors

2013

• Congo Basin: Report on expansion of oil palm plantations

2012

• Africa: Social movements building resistance

2011

• The Conservation International REDD pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – a very different kind of Walt Disney production

• DRC: INGA dams for big business

2009

• Uganda: The Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognized

• Congo, D.R: Inga dams mean big business for corporations and no benefit for local communities

2008

• Democratic Republic of the Congo: The search for consensus on the Itombwe forests

• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Deforestation of protected areas for mining operations in the province of Katanga – The case of the Basse Kando Reserve

• Congo, DR: Doing away with forests, people and climate through logging

• Congo, Democratic Republic: The looting war

• Congo, D.R: The oil palm invasion has started

2002

• Congo, Republic: Increased logging activities

• Congo, Democratic Republic: Forests Open for Business

2001

• Pillage in the Democratic Republic of Congo certified in Uganda?

• Congo, D.R: The case of the Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park

• Congo, D.R.: Will Zimbabwe become a member of the logging club?

• Congo, D.R.: Millions of acres of forest under unsustainable logging

2000

• The uncertain fate of forests in the Congo Democratic Republic

Books and Briefings

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  Recueil de recettes nutritives, médicinales, artisanales des palmiers à huile traditionnels

  Posted on November 27, 2018

  Only available in French.

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  Kam puni ya ku towa mawese ka tika DRC ikiungwa mkono na misaada ya maendeleo inakabiliwa na migogoro ya ardhi na kashfa ya fedha

  Posted on November 4, 2016

  SWAHILI. Ripoti hii iliandaliwa na umoja wa shirika za kiraia za DRC na Ulaya. Ni muendelezo wa ripoti ya mwezi wa Juni mwaka 2015 ambayo ilitoa tahadhari kwa jumuiya ya kimataifa juu ya ukiukwaji wa haki za binadamu, umaskini,unyonyaji...

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  Entwicklungsbankkunde in der Kritik Landrechtskonflikte und undurchsichtige Finanztransaktionen bei kongolesischer Palmölfirma

  Posted on November 3, 2016

  GERMAN. Der Bericht wurde von einer Gruppe von Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen aus der DR Kongo und Europa erarbeitet. Er vervollständigt bereits im Juni 2015 von den Organisationen RIAO-RDC und GRAIN veröffentlichte Informationen zur...

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  Société moko ya mbila na RDC ézali kosungana na lisungi ya tombwa ekutani na ba mikaatano ya mabele mpe ya misolo

  Posted on November 3, 2016

  LINGALA. Lapolo oyo esalemi na lisanga ya balobeli (société Civile) ya RDC mpe baye ba Europe. Ekomami na bolandaka lapolo mwa sanza ya motoba na mobu mwa 2015 oyo ezali kolakisa na lisanga mikili lolenge bosomi ya bomoto, ya mobola ya...

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  Land conflicts and shady finances plague DR Congo palm oil company backed by development funds

  Posted on November 3, 2016

  The report is also available in German, in Lingala and Swahili.

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  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

  Posted on December 3, 2014

  REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...

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  Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios – 2013 update

  Posted on August 30, 2013

  Original version by Ricardo Carrere – updated by the WRM in 2013. Oil palm is a traditional native crop for West and Central African communities, who are used to either plant them on their lands or to collect fruits, leaves or sap...

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  Democratic Republic of Congo. Conservation International REDD pilot project: a different kind of Disney production

  Posted on November 10, 2011

  By Belmond Tchoumba This report is based on the fi ndings of research conducted by WRM on the REDD pilot project being undertaken by Conservation International and the Walt Disney Company in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic...

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  REDD in the Congo Basin

  Posted on December 11, 2010

  The forest of the Congo Basin expands over an area of continuous tropical rainforest cover only second to that of the Amazon forest. The region’s forests are found in Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon,...

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  Oil palm and rubber plantations in Western and Central Africa: An Overview

  Posted on December 15, 2008

  Oil palm and rubber plantations are very similar in many respects, but there is something that clearly differentiates them: oil palm is a native species in many West African countries –and part of the culture of local peoples- while...

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Meetings and Events

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  The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action 

  Posted on May 7, 2014

  In late 2013, a group of representatives of African, Indonesian and international NGOs met with members of La Via Campesina and the African Biodiversity Network in Calabar, Nigeria, to address the massive expansion of industrial oil palm...

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News

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  DRC communities file complaint with German development bank to resolve century-old land conflict with palm oil company

  Posted on November 7, 2018

  Nine communities from the DR Congo took a historic step this week by filing a complaint with the complaints mechanism of the German development bank (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – DEG)

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Other Relevant Information

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  Where does all the gold processed in Switzerland come from?

  Posted on April 29, 2018

  Where does all the gold processed in Switzerland come from? Switzerland is a country poor in raw materials and yet, every year, 70 per cent of the gold extracted in the world is refined there. Switzerland is home to four of the largest...

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  New report: Land conflicts and shady finances plague DR Congo palm oil company backed by development funds

  Posted on November 3, 2016

  2 November 2016. European and US development funds are bankrolling palm oil company Feronia Inc despite land and labour conflicts at its plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). New information now raises questions as to...

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  Under the radar: A brief summary of the situation of environmental defenders in Central Africa

  Posted on July 15, 2016

  This report aims to draw attention to violations and threats that environmental justice defenders in Central Africa are facing, specifically in the Congo Basin. The report is based on two studies. The first concerns the legal framework for...

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  West African women defend traditional palm oil

  Posted on July 15, 2016

  A video produced by GRAIN shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of the destructive expansion of industrial oil palm plantations. See the video...

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  The WWF in DRC: Conservation without people

  Posted on May 9, 2016

  A short film from the Rainforest Foundation UK about forest communities affected by the Tumba Lediima Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows how the communities living in the area established for the Reserved were, and...

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  Community-based Forest Management in the Congo Basin

  Posted on September 16, 2015

  A report from the Rainforest Foundation UK, shows how attempts of community based forest management in the Congo Basin thus far have not been able to transfer meaningful rights or benefits to local communities. Only around 1% of the total...

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  Agro-colonialism in the Congo – European and US development finance is bankrolling a new round of colonialism in the DRC

  Posted on June 2, 2015

  The report is authored by GRAIN and RIAO-RDC in collaboration with Fundación Mundubat, War on Want, Association Française d’Amitié et de Solidarité avec les Peuples d’Afrique, World Rainforest Movement, Food First,...

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  Several development finance institutions are funding Feronia Inc., an agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in DRC

  Posted on June 2, 2015

  For immediate release Réseau d’information et d’appui aux ONG nationales (RIAO-RDC) | GRAIN Media release 2 June 2015 Agro-colonialism in the Congo: European and US development finance bankrolls a new round of...

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  “A chance for change in the Congolese forests,” a video produced by the NGO FERN

  Posted on October 31, 2014

  This video shows the struggle of communities that depend on the forests in the Republic of Congo, and that of their defenders, to reduce the impacts of deforestation and to guarantee their rights to manage and control their own...

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  Oil Palm in Africa – Interactive Map

  Posted on August 30, 2013

  We have produced an interactive map that sumarizes some of the information gathered in the  publication “Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios“. The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil...

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  Sold Down the River – The Need to Control Transnational Forestry Corporations: A European Case Study

  Posted on April 17, 2011

  By Forests Monitor, 2001 Sold Down the River – The Need to Control Transnational Forestry Corporations: A European Case Study

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Videos

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  Oil Palm in Africa. Voices from the communities

  Posted on September 13, 2013

  Industrial oil palm plantations are rapidly expanding, not only in Liberia. In many African countries expansion projects are happening and plans are announced. Everywhere they go, the companies promise jobs and development. Produced by the...

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