World Rainforest Movement
The articles in this Bulletin are written by the following organizations and individuals:
Social Intercultural Movement of the People of Ixcán, Guatemala; Witness Radio, Uganda; an activist from Sierra Leona and member of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in West and Central Africa; Yayasan Pusaka Bentala Rakyat, Indonesia; a researcher from Brazil; and members of the WRM international secretariat in close collaboration with several allies in different countries.
The International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations, September 21st recognizes the courage and strength behind the resistance processes against industrial plantations.
The Palmas del Ixcán company has used multiple tactics to grab land, as well as a deceptive RSPO certification process and the use of “independent producers.” Despite criminalization of communities, their resistance grows ever stronger.
More than 10,000 people have been evicted to make way for the UK-registered New Forests Company (NFC)’s tree plantations, which are established and financed under the carbon market framework.
Oil palm company Socfin has meant oppression for affected communities. Yet, women have to confront another patriarchic system. Paramount Chiefs are the custodian of the land according to customary law, which often give men decision-making and ownership power over land.
Oil palm plantations are one of the most unsafe spaces for women, not only because of their vulnerable working status packed with injustices and precarities, but also because of the potential for sexual violence and harassment.
Dari kerentanan ke kerentanan lainnya Dari jarak kira-kira 10 meter, Saya melihat seorang buruh perempuan yang sedang menenteng ember di tangan kanan dan arit di tangan kirinya, terpaku. Kami beradu (Read More)
Suzano, the world’s largest producer of eucalyptus pulp, is seeking to intensify its operations with so-called ‘green bonds’ as a way to finance its expansion projects.
The Sangha region is entirely under the control of three concessions that have colonial origins and continue to deploy guards against the forest inhabitants to prevent them using their ancestral lands.
As the devastating effects of climate change become more immediate and severe, corporate interests are promoting the use of unproven and potentially dangerous genetically engineered (GE) trees for climate mitigation (Read More)
A recent publication form the WRM explains how contract farming with palm oil companies works, and why it is a serious threat to peasant farming and food sovereignty. The booklet (Read More)
A recent article from Mongabay warns on how the palm oil industry is expanding rapidly in the Brazilian Amazon. Oil palm coverage in northern Pará increased almost five-fold between 2010 (Read More)
An academic article from Janina Puder exposes how the palm oil industry in Malaysia heavily relies on the cheap labour of migrant workers in order to keep palm oil profitable (Read More)