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.

Action alerts 7 March 2018

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

Action alerts 17 January 2018

Sign the petition! African women demand that oil palm companies give back their land and stop the violence

Action alerts 28 August 2017

Port Loko Declaration: Women say “We want our lands back!”

Action alerts 9 June 2016

Let´s stop further destruction by Bidco Africa industrial oil palm plantations

Action alerts 17 June 2014

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

Action alerts 13 May 2014

Support the Jogbahn Clan in Liberia: Tell Equatorial Palm Oil NO means NO!

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

Action alerts 31 August 2010

Environmental group call on World Bank to drop plans for resumed palm oil funding

Action alerts 20 May 2010

Tell the World Bank: No more funding for oil palm plantations!

Action alerts 18 May 2010

World Bank: No more funding for oil palm plantations!