‘This is not empty forest’: Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon
▻http://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/this-is-not-empty-forest-africas-palm-oil-surge-builds-in-cameroon
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Cameroon in many ways is a microcosm of the surge in oil palm investment set to take much of tropical Africa by storm. The country has a history with the crop dating back more than six decades to colonialism under the French. Many Cameroonians today produce palm oil for themselves and for sale on the local market, and a few international companies have begun to test the waters, developing large-scale industrial plantations, often with the blessing of key government officials who see the crop as a critical rung on the ladder toward Cameroon becoming an emerging nation.
But along with that development has come signs of the issues that have arisen with oil palm’s industrial application elsewhere in the world, notably in Southeast Asia. Poor coordination and opaque land laws have led to disenfranchised local populations, who have seen their forests appropriated by big companies and promises from those corporations often going unfulfilled.
Et où il sera question d’#Herackles #Cameroun #industrie_palmiste #cartographie
2ème volet
Palm oil’s new frontier: averting a Great Ape catastrophe in Cameroon
▻http://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/palm-oils-new-frontier-averting-a-great-ape-catastrophe-in-cameroon
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Lessons from Herakles: sorting out a road map for palm oil in Africa
▻http://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/lessons-herakles-sorting-road-map-palm-oil-africa
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