The Congo Basin: in the Sights of Capital
The Congo Basin in Central Africa contains the second largest forest in the world. Its extensive territory is shared by six countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
WHAT IS DRIVING LAND GRABBING: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW ACROSS THE CONGO BASIN REGION
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Emerging without submerging: the challenge of international policies on the environment in Central Africa
Central Africa is flooded with regional and international initiatives to manage its natural resources. In this forest region par excellence, the combination of these initiatives directly or indirectly affects the (Read More)
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Women and Property in Cameroon: Laws and Reality
The agricultural force on the continent In Cameroon as in many African countries, women daily endure practices that could be considered discriminatory in various areas of society, and especially related (Read More)
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DRC: Communities mobilise to free themselves from a hundred years of colonial oil palm plantations
Oil palms are native to the forests of Central and West Africa and inseparable from the region’s peoples and their cultures. Communities in this part of the world have relied (Read More)
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Agribusiness, a step towards increased food dependency in Africa
The village of Yalifombo, on the banks of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was an essentially agricultural community. In this village it is possible (Read More)
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Infrastructure, development and natural resources in Africa: A few examples from Cameroon
(*) In a world characterized by sluggish economic growth, Africa is often presented as the continent of the future, with average growth of around 5% annually that has remained constant, (Read More)
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Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing both people and biodiversity
(1) The creation of “protected areas” throughout the world is mainly based on a philosophy that originated in the United States (US) in the late 1800s, which gave birth to (Read More)
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Land grabbing: Tactics used by European actors abroad
(1) Current land grabbing practices include the capture of control of relatively vast tracts of land through a variety of mechanisms. In the process, land use acquires an extractive character, (Read More)
TRICKS AND DECEPTION THAT PROMOTE LAND GRABBING
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Strategies and tactics companies use to promote the expansion of oil palm plantations in the face of resistance from surrounding communities
From January 28-31, 2016, in Mundemba in southwest Cameroon, two international meetings took place on the expansion of oil palm cultivation and the global oil palm industry, in particular in (Read More)
ACTION ALERTS
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Peasant mobilizations in Cameroon
Socapalm and Safacam are two companies controlled by Socfin, a multinational agribusiness specialized in the cultivation of oil palm and rubber. The group has financial and operating companies in Belgium, (Read More)
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“Conservationists, are you listening?” Baka Indigenous Peoples in Cameroon
In southeast Cameroon, Baka Indigenous Peoples and their neighbours continue to be illegally evicted in the name of conservation, most recently for a game reserve set up in 2015 with (Read More)
RECOMMENDED
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Under the radar: A brief summary of the situation of environmental defenders in Central Africa
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 (Read More)
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“12 Replies to 12 Lies about Oil Palm monocultures plantations” booklet available in Swahili and Lingala
This booklet produced by WRM aims at strengthening the struggles of all those who are opposing large-scale oil palm plantations in the global South. After expanding in Indonesia and Malaysia (Read More)
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“10 things communities should know about REDD” booklet available in Swahili and Lingala
The main goal of this booklet is to inform communities about the serious problems that a REDD project can cause for the communities involved. WRM has visited a number of (Read More)
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Collection of videos about the impacts of large-scale industrial oil palm plantations
The WRM, together with GRAIN, prepared a collection of videos on the impacts of large-scale industrial oil palm plantations. The videos have been produced by several partners from around the (Read More)
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REDD Realities: two publications that show what REDD means for communities
Two publications show how REDD undermines forest peoples’ rights, fails to address deforestation and puts the blame for deforestation and emissions on peasant farming practices while undermining local food systems. (Read More)
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West African women defend traditional palm oil
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 (Read More)