industryterm:palm oil industry

#Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say : Conservation news
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If the street Pedro Arnado was looking down was on the Philippine government’s roadmap for future palm oil development, critics say it would be one highly dangerous to navigate, lined with the hazards of unfair labor practices, land poverty, militarization and environmental degradation.

Arnado is the Secretary General of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) in Southern Mindanao, or KMP, and a spokesperson for the Farmer’s Association in Davao City. On January 26, 2017, he stood on the edge of a crowded rally of peasants, trade union members and indigenous people at Rizal Park in Davao City, Mindanao, describing how the palm oil industry has affected the farmers and communities in other provinces of Mindanao where plantations have already been operating. He says that the business-oriented development of palm oil “equals corruption and land-grabbing.”

#industrie_palmiste #terres #peuples_autochtones #militarisation #évictions_forcées va falloir que je m’attèle à ce gros !

Olam to pause Gabon forest clearance in victory for activists
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Olam, one of the world’s biggest traders of agricultural commodities, has agreed to a year-long moratorium on forest clearance in Gabon, marking a breakthrough for campaigners who have targeted the palm oil industry.

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The suspension follows criticism last year from a US-based environmental group that Olam has bulldozed rainforest in Gabon, one of central Africa’s prime wildlife sanctuaries due to its dense jungles, to clear land for palm-oil plantations.

#Gabon #forêt #déforestation #industrie_palmiste #moratoire

Malaysian investors eye more palm oil plantations in PH
▻http://www.rappler.com/business/152064-malaysian-investors-palm-oil-plantations

“Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said that the businessmen initially planned to develop 80,000 hectares but are considering expanding the investment to about 300,000 hectares throughout the Philippines,” said Abella.

Duterte himself indicated he was open to the idea of more palm oil plantations in the country.

Despite concerns about the impact of palm oil plantations on the environment, Duterte said the palm oil industry in some parts of Mindanao, like Agusan del Sur, “has proven to be a good source of revenue and a source of livelihood for the people there.”

Environmentalists have pointed out that land conversion to make way for palm oil plantations has driven deforestation and led to soil, water, and air pollution in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia.

Parait que les enfant philippins souffrent de malnutrition #industrie_palmiste #Philippines

US investors ploughing billions into palm oil, claims report | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/26/palm-oil-us-investors-deforestation-land-grabs-pension-funds-banks-fore

Some of the US’ leading institutional investors, including pension funds, are potentially fuelling environmental and social harm by ploughing billions of dollars into the palm oil industry through opaque financial arrangements, a new report claims.

Large investment firms are lagging behind commitments made by consumer brands such as Nestlé, Unilever and McDonald’s by failing to identify whether they are investing in palm oil, which palm oil companies they are involved with, or to hold them accountable over deforestation and land grabbing, the Friends of the Earth US (FoE) report states.

#industrie_palmiste #terres

Stop the palm oil industry’s assault on the Amazon
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In 2000, the Peruvian government declared oil palm plantations in the Amazon region to be in the national interest. Melka’s plantation companies are said to have already purchased 60,000 hectares of primary rainforest from the government in the Loreto region alone and requested a concession to clear more than 100,000 hectares of virgin forest in Loreto and in the neighboring region of Ucayali.

The responsible politicians and officials now claim to have been unaware of the deforestation by Melka’s plantation companies. Since Peru prohibits the clear-cutting of primary forest for oil palm plantations, the companies first clear the land without a permit and then offer to reforest it with oil palms.

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In recent months (...) life in Peru’s Amazonian lowlands has been marked by fear and turmoil. Foreign speculators have begun with large-scale clear-cutting – initially in secret. Promises, threats and blackmail have prompted farmers to sell their rainforest plots to the plantation companies at well below their value.

#huile_de_palme #Amazonie #Perou #deforestation #surveillance #satellites