Cameroon: Campaigners Oppose Industrial Palm Oil Plantation Up to 45, 000 people are at risk of losing their livelihoods if a large palm oil plantation project in southwestern Cameroon will proceed. SG Sustainble Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), a subsidiary of Herakles Farms, is overseeing the project after signing an agreement with the Cameroonian ...
YAOUNDE, 14 December 2012 (IRIN) - Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
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Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the ...
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Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
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Cameroon In Crisis: West Africa Palm Oil and US, China, Corporate Plantations Cameroon, West Africa, November 2015 - Six environmental and human rights organizations, which include Greenpeace Africa, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), GRAIN, Fern, Oakland Institute and SAVE are calling on Cameroon authorities to stop the repression of environmental human rights defender and farmer ...
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Cameroon: Campaigners Oppose Industrial Palm Oil Plantation (December 14, 2012) Up to 45, 000 people are at risk of losing their livelihoods if a large palm oil plantation project in southwestern Cameroon will proceed.
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In a new report published today, Greenpeace reveals how one company in Cameroon, has colluded with government officials to illegally obtain a permit to export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation in the South West region of the country.
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This article examines why peasant communities in South West Cameroon have contested a U.S.-based company’s intentions to establish an agro-industrial palm oil plantation in their region.
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Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantations IRIN News December 14, 2012 Curbing Tanzania's land-grabbing race Orton Kiishweko Inter Press Service December 19, 2012 See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger . 2012 Africa Hunger Notes Home Page
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2012-12-14· Campaigners opposed to. Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
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Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk
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Cameroon: Campaigners Oppose Industrial Palm Oil Plantation Up to 45, 000 people are at risk of losing their livelihoods if a large palm oil plantation project in southwestern Cameroon will proceed. SG Sustainble Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), a subsidiary of Herakles Farms, is overseeing the project after signing an agreement with the Cameroonian government in 2009.
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YAOUNDE, 14 December 2012 (IRIN) Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
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Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk
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Cameroon In Crisis: West Africa Palm Oil and US, China, Corporate Plantations Cameroon, West Africa, November 2015 Six environmental and human rights organizations, which include Greenpeace Africa, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), GRAIN, Fern, Oakland Institute and SAVE are calling on Cameroon authorities to stop the repression of environmental human rights defender and
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Map of FMU 09-025, the national park, and existing plantations. Image by Mongabay via Global Forest Watch. Converting this bloc of forest into oil palm plantations is the least sustainable land use option for the area, says John Takang, executive director of the NGO Environmental Governance Institute (EGI). “Industrial agriculture will take
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Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon by Jeremy Hance,Rhett A. Butler on 13 September 2011 Industrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home.
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Photos reveal destruction of Cameroon rainforest for palm oil by Jeremy Hance on 26 November 2012 Clearing of trees in a concession area of Herakles Farm’s area for a palm oil plantation.
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Campaigners will continue their protest against a large palm oil plantation which is threatening a rainforest in southwest Cameroon, as well as the livelihoods of thousands of people living in the area. This is the announcement made by Nasako Besingi, director of the local NGO ‘Struggle to Economize the Future’, in an interview published today by Inter Press Service. In 2009, SG
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NGOs reject new oil palm plantation in southern Cameroon. KRIBI, Cameroon — Alarm flashed through Cameroon’s conservation community in mid-September 2025, when images of untidy rows of black polythene bags in a freshly bulldozed gash in the rainforest made the rounds of social media.
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This is already happening. In the South West and Southern Regions of Cameroon for example, indigenous and local communities have been expropriated from their land by industrial companies like SG Sustainable Oils (SGSOC) -a palm oil Plantation Company and Sud Cameroon Hévéa (SUDCAM), a subsidiary of Singapore based Halcyon Agri.
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It urges the Government of Cameroon to end the suffering and violence brought about by the expansion of industrial oil palm plantations. There are solutions to this problem. The State of Cameroon can take measures to prevent violence against women when allocating land to agricultural industries. Likewise, it can better protect and support
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Originally posted by Greenpeace International. Amsterdam, August 8, 2013 The endangered Chimpanzee stands to have swathes of its forest habitat in Cameroon destroyed if a US company's controversial plans to establish a palm oil plantation in the area are not stopped.
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2015-02-25· Boosting Cameroon's economy. It is against this background that the Central and West African state of Cameroon has been trying to get a palm oil industry off or rather into
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2013-11-19· Other consequences of palm oil production include numerous environmental threats such as pollution, climate change, and global warming, as well as disregard for the rights of local natives. U.S. corporation Herakles Farms released plans to begin formation of a palm oil plantation ten times the size of Manhattan in Cameroon.
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This article examines why peasant communities in South West Cameroon have contested a U.S.-based company’s intentions to establish an agro-industrial palm oil plantation in their region. Land inves...
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CAMEROON: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation 12/14/2012 IRIN: "The plantation will economically displace approximately 25,000 people and put at risk many others who depend on that land for small-scale food production, hunting, and non-timber forest products. Thus, the net impact on employment will actually be negative. This is
Get Price2013-11-19· Other consequences of palm oil production include numerous environmental threats such as pollution, climate change, and global warming, as well as disregard for the rights of local natives. U.S. corporation Herakles Farms released plans to begin formation of a palm oil plantation ten times the size of Manhattan in Cameroon.
Get PriceMap of FMU 09-025, the national park, and existing plantations. Image by Mongabay via Global Forest Watch. Converting this bloc of forest into oil palm plantations is the least sustainable land use option for the area, says John Takang, executive director of the NGO Environmental Governance Institute (EGI). “Industrial agriculture will take
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SOCAPALM, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil producer, is a subsidiary of the Socfin Group, in which French business mogul, Vincent Bolloré, is the largest shareholder (38.75%). SOCAPALM’s Kienke palm plantation that covers 7,459 ha of land is the country’s largest palm plantation and also one of the youngest of the five plantations of the agro-industrial company -only 15 years old.
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Environment ministers from more than 100 countries meeting this week in Bali must oppose initiatives from Indonesia and the EU to reclassify oil palm plantations as forests(1), said the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today. Reclassification would subvert global efforts to halt climate change and threaten biodiversity, warned ECA's forest and climate experts.
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As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.
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SOCAPALM’s Kienke palm plantation that covers 7,459 ha of land is the country’s largest palm plantation and also one of the youngest of the five plantations of the agro-industrial company -only 15 years old. Four other oil palm plantations of the agro-industrial company include Mbongo, Eseka, Dibombari, and Mbambou.
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Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon. Tucked amongst the hilltops of Yaoundé are the signs of a country and an economy on the move. Cameroonians fill high-end grocery stores, bars and restaurants, often spilling out onto the street in the capital city streets to watch the traffic and people pass, by while enjoying the tropical capital’s surprisingly temperate weather with a []
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2015-01-20· Cameroon’s demand for palm oil is estimated at 325,000 tonnes a year. The Central African nation currently has 160,000ha of palm oil plantations, revealed Thomas. According to Menye, by 2020 the Cameroon government will reduce the importation of palm oil and also create more jobs and added value for the economy.
Get PriceA huge palm oil project in Cameroon's rainforest, led by a U.S.-based agribusiness, Herakles Farms, is stirring up controversy. Environmentalists
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In a new report published today, Greenpeace reveals how one company in Cameroon, has colluded with government officials to illegally obtain a permit to export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation in the South West region of the country.
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