Over 270 organizations and academics oppose biodiversity market mechanisms ahead of critical global meeting, citing major risks to ecosystems and communities
Declarations
We, members of the Manchineri, Apurinã, Katukina Noke Kuí, Jamamadí, Jaminawa, Sharanawa, Huni Kuim, Shanenawa, Ashaninka, Madiha, Kuntanawa, Jaminawa-Arara, Jaminawa do Igarapé Preto, Marubo, Arara, Apolima-Arara, Kanoé Rondonia, Oro Wari Rondonia, Bororo, Nukini and Nawa peoples, farmers, extractive rural workers, and representatives of the organizations Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI), World Rainforest Movement (WRM), Friends of the Earth Brazil, Sempre Viva Feminist Organization (SOF), World March of Women (WMW), Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST-RO) and Small Farmers’ Movement
Statement released on 15 March by more than 360 organizations.
With the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and WRM published an open statement denouncing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) for greenwashing the oil palm industry's destruction and violence.
Declaration by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), March 2016
To Berta Cáceres and the Lenca People, the struggle continues!
In the framework of the Latin American forum on
“Large scale monocultures in Latin America, land grabbing
and threats to biodiversity and food sovereignty”
September 6-11, 2014 - Garifuna Territory, Honduras
Nous, membres de communautés affectées par des plantations industrielles de monoculture de palmier à huile, ainsi que les mouvements des paysans et les organisations de la société civile venus de l’Afrique, de l’Europe, de l’Amérique et de l’Asie, ci-dessous signataire de la présente, réunis du 02 au 05 novembre 2013 à Calabar dans l’Etat de Cross River au Nigéria,
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We, members of communities affected by industrial monoculture oil palm plantations, including peasant movements, as well as other civil society organizations from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia, and signatories to this declaration, met from 2 –5 November 2013 in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria,
The NO REDD in Africa Network gathered here in Maputo Mozambique, on 26 August 2013 during the occasion of an international workshop on REDD with participants from Mozambique, other African countries, North America and South America deliberated on the implications of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) for Africa and by extension the global South.
