France

Articles from the WRM Bulletin

2017

• French Guyana: The French government is quietly promoting the industrialization of gold mining in French Guyana

2014

• Grassroots organizations in France alert the participants of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Safety and Nutrition organized by FAO

2010

• French economic group Bolloré attempts to intimidate journalists who expose abusive practices on its plantations in Cameroon

Other Relevant Information

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  Jail term for villagers opposing Bolloré/Socfin’s palm oil plantations in Sierra Leone as trial of French journalists starts in Paris

  Posted on February 10, 2016

  10 February 2016 | Press release – A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of six local community leaders affected by the...

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  Carbon versus food

  Posted on June 10, 2014

  A case study of the “Fair Forest Carbon compensation” project of French company Pur Projet, in the region of San Martin, Peru, which aims to generate carbon credits destined, initially, for the voluntary carbon market. In Peru...

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  New investigative and critical website on French transnational corporations – Multinationals Observatory

  Posted on March 7, 2014

  Online resources and in-depth investigations on the social, ecological and political impact of French transnational corporations. See...

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  France – WRM information sheet on GE tree research

  Posted on August 1, 2008

   WRM information sheets on GE tree research First posted: 1 August 2008 Updated: 15 August 2008, based on information from (1) Last update: August 2014 Tree species being manipulated: (1,2,3) Hybrid poplar (populus alba x populus...

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