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Top brands failing to spot rights abuses on Indonesian oil palm plantations

23 July 2021

Indonesia

A new report highlights systemic social and environmental problems that continue to plague the Indonesian palm oil industry and ripple far up the global palm oil supply chain.

Palm oil project launched

15 May 2021

Uganda

The private sector has been commended for their contribution to import substitution through the escalation of the growing of oil palm.

Climate crisis and the Congo Basin: The planet’s future may ride on President Tshisekedi’s grip on the DRC

19 April 2021

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Congo Basin’s forests and peatlands are a major component of Earth’s life-support systems, and it is a key supplier of vital minerals needed to build a low carbon economy. The case for the people of the Congo to benefit from not exploiting these resources is irrefutable.

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Can palm oil truly be sustainable? Malaysia offers a certification model we’ve been waiting for

11 May 2021

Authors:

Robert Hii

Malaysia

A new UN report entitled, "Making Peace With Nature”, finds that nearly 90 percent of all known species are threatened by climate change. Another UN report warns the world is “nowhere close” to fighting climate change. Unsurprisingly, panicked governments are adopting short-sighted solutions, and in the process are missing important templates for slowing, and even reversing, climate change.

Palm oil companies continue to criminalize farmers in Sumatra

16 January 2019

Authors:

Gaurav Madan

Indonesia

Nearly five years after Friends of the Earth U.S. reported about escalating conflict between farmers in the village of Lunjuk on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and palm oil company PT Sandabi Indah Lestari — or PT SIL — those communities remain in conflict with PT SIL, which supplies Wilmar International, the world’s largest palm oil trader.

As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories

11 July 2018

Authors:

Laura Notess

Mr. Peter Veit

Global

The Santa Clara de Uchunya community has lived in a remote section of the Peruvian Amazon for generations. Like many indigenous groups, this community of the Shipibo-Konibo people have traditionally managed and relied on forests for hunting, fishing and natural resources.

But in 2014, someone started cutting down large sections of the community’s ancestral forests.

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Addressing Land Governance in International Responsible Business Conduct Agreements

Manuals & Guidelines

Reports & Research

February 2018

Global

The study was commissioned to the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in July 2017 by the Land Dialogue, with financial support from the Dutch Government. The objective is to provide insight and guidance into the relevance of land governance as a possible priority theme t o be considered in the process of the International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC) Agreements.

Trends in global land use investment: implications for legal empowerment

Journal Articles & Books

Reports & Research

January 2018

Global

From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups.

GHG Balance of Agricultural Intensification & Bioenergy Production in the Orinoquia Region, Colombia

Peer-reviewed publication

March 2021

Colombia

Energy crop expansion can increase land demand and generate displacement of food crops, which impacts greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mainly through land-use change (LUC). Increased agricultural productivity could compensate for this.

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Organizations

Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies (AZMEC)

AZMEC is the Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies.

The aims and objectives of AZMEC are to provide a discussion forum and dedicated lobby group for mineral exploration companies and mining companies carrying out exploration as well as government representatives, NGO’s, service providers, academic institutions and other interested parties in Zambia with the view to contributing to the growth, promotion, and sustainable development of the sector in this country.

Green Scenary

Green Scenery is concerned that 60% of the total area in one of the districts in Sierra Leone could soon be converted for large-scale industrial oil palm plantations.

Natural Habitats

Natural Habitats Group is a company fully committed to the sustainable production of organic and fairly traded products, including organic palm oil. Natural Habitats products are cultivated using only 100% organic practices by small farmers and owned plantations in South America and add organic credibility to food, personal care and animal nutrition products.

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