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Dear friends, We need your urgent support. The Ekuri People’s ancestral land in Nigeria is under threat. The people of Ekuri live in Cross River State in the southeast corner of Nigeria almost on the border with Cameroon, deep in the...
read moreThe expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action
Nigeria: Okomu Oil Palm Company – destroying communities for oil palm expansion
OIL – Land grab for oil: The crude reality of oil drilling in the Niger Delta
Nigeria: Wilmar, RRDC, and the Calaro/Ibiae Oil Palm Estates
Nigeria: Environmentalist threatened for his denounces against Wilmar’s oil palm plantations
Nigeria: Dutch court condemns Shell – but more justice is needed!
Nigera: A unique example of community based forest management at the Ekuri community
Oil palm in Nigeria: shifting from smallholders and women to mass production
Nigeria: Women at forefront of struggle against oil corporations
Nigeria: The long arm of justice is finally catching up on Shell
Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods
Nigeria: Malaysian corporation to invest in palm oil production
Nigeria: At whose expense is oil drilled in the Niger Delta?
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 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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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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Also available in French We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia,...
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By Friends of the Earth US, Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria. Wilmar International1 is one of the world’s largest palm oil plantation owners, traders, and processing companies. Wilmar is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable...
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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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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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By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...
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