Palm Oil

The oil palm tree is native to West Africa. It is an important tree for forest-dependent communities, their cultures and their economies. However, large-scale oil palm monocultures for industrial production (oil and agrofuels) have been driving deforestation and land grabbing in Southeast Asia. More recently, oil palm monocultures are also driving destruction in Africa and Latin America.

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Action alerts 13 August 2024

Stop SOCAPALM’s replanting operations!

Press release. SOCAPALM, a subsidiary of Socfin, must immediately cease replanting operations at Edea 1, in Cameroon.
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Action alerts 28 November 2023

Your support is needed! Sign this petition by women in Cameroon resisting industrial oil palm plantations

Sign this petition against the replanting of oil palm by Socapalm (Socfin/ Bolloré) in the vicinity of the homes and tombs of the neighbouring village Apouh à Ngog, in Edea-Cameroon.
Action alerts 7 March 2018

Press release: Women demand that oil palm companies stop violence and give back community land

Action alerts 17 June 2014

Land grabber's paradise: Cameroonian environmentalist faces trial, while charges against his attackers mysteriously "disappear"

Action alerts 29 January 2014

Your support is needed: Cameroon activists on trial for peaceful protest against Wall Street land grabber

Action alerts 29 January 2014

Letter sent by several NGOs to relevant UN Special Rapporteurs requesting they investigate and intervene in these cases of acts of repression and criminalisation of local organisations and activists in Cameroon