With the deadline due this year for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. But for communities suffering its land grabs in Nigeria, nothing has changed. While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
… quite. Friends of the Earth Europe has been campaigning for years to address the problems … Europe, together with many other groups , is campaigning to ensure the UN adopts a proposal …
A small community in Uganda is challenging a UN-backed international oil palm venture that has expropriated small farmers and obliterated an entire forest on a Lake Victoria island to establish a vast plantation. Three years after the grab, Friends of the Earth groups are backing the islanders legal action, which is launched today.
UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed Anne van Schaik Oliver Tickell | 19th February 2015 News Un Corporations Forests Land Grabs Africa Uganda Food Farming …