Oil-palm plantations: No sustainability possible with Paraquat The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis AFRICA Uganda BIDCO oil palm plantations at the cost of pristine rainforests in Bugala Oil palm plantations that brought high winds and low wages AMERICA Colombia The hard life of oil palm plantation workers
Bidco Uganda currently refines palm oil from crude oil produced by Oil Palm Uganda Ltd (OPUL), a subsidiary of Bidco Uganda. OPUL is responsible for managing the plantations in Kalangala, and for receiving raw produce and initial processing before transporting the produce, by water, to Bidco Uganda’s refinery in Jinja. Bidco
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Although nominally independent, OPUL is 90% owned by Bidco Uganda, itself a joint venture between the oil palm giant Wilmar International, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Oil Refineries, a Kenya-based company. Wilmar International holds at least 39% of the shares in OPUL and is providing technical expertise for the project.
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The current situation in Uganda with palm oil plantations has not been good since it has envisaged Over 3600 hectares of pristine forest were cleared to make way for at least 7000 hectares of palm oil plantations. This is in addition to unprecedented forest degradation through logging to heat the
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Although nominally independent, OPUL is 90 percent owned by Bidco Uganda, itself a joint venture between the oil palm giant Wilmar International, Josovina Commodities and Bidco Oil Refineries, a Kenya-based company. Wilmar International holds at least 39 percent of the shares in OPUL and is providing technical expertise for the project.
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UN, banks and oil palm giants feast on the stolen land of Uganda's dispossessed by Anne van Schaik & Oliver Tickell 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 ...
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INFOSYLVA is an information service of news clippings provided by the FAO Forestry Information Centre with news on forestry in English, French and Spanish. INFOSYLVA est un service d'information à partir de coupures de presse, mis à disposition par le Centre d'Information sur les Forêts de la FAO et qui fait le point de l'actualité dans ce secteur, en
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The Bidco palm oil plantations. When the idea to establish a palm oil project on Bugala Island was first mooted, there were objections from many, especially environmental groups that feared deforestation as palm trees plantations replaced indigenous forests. Currently about 10,000 hectares are planted with palm trees by Oil Palm Uganda Limited ...
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“Defending Commons’ Land and ICCAs“, August 2016 CALG Bulletin. Land grabs often stem from speculation and illegal and unethical transfer of lands, small and large. Recent news from REPAM and church-indigenous partnerships to deal with the top priorities of territoriality, including land grabs and mega-projects, and support for cultural life, including church opposition to existing ...
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BIDCO Oil Refineries Ltd., the largest and fastest growing manufacturer of vegetable oils, fats, margarine, soaps and protein concentrates in East and Central Africa is investing in a multi-million dollar oil palm plantation on Bugala islands in Kalangala. The project is planned to cover 26,500 hectares and produce 140,000 tonnes of palm kernel
Get PriceWilmar International, one of the largest oilseeds corporations in the world is developing palm oil plantations in biodiverse islands off the coast of Lake Victoria, Uganda. The project is a partnership of Wilmar with the Government of Uganda, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Kenyan oilseeds company Bidco. The first phase of the project was completed in 2011, and
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10-8-2010· What follows is a brief description of the oil palm issue in Uganda. After reading it, we invite you to send us comments . Oil palm in Uganda In the Ugandan case, the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development has been –and still is- at the forefront in facilitating and supporting foreign investment in
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Bidco Uganda currently refines palm oil from crude oil produced by Oil Palm Uganda Ltd (OPUL), a subsidiary of Bidco Uganda. OPUL is responsible for managing the plantations in Kalangala, and for receiving raw produce and initial processing before transporting the produce, by water, to Bidco Uganda’s refinery in Jinja. Bidco
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Land grabbing for palm oil in Uganda Right: Some of the men and their machines on a newly cleared site of hundreds of acres by the lakeside. This land assumed by locals to be common land and therefore for public use was all of a sudden in the hands of the plantation owner, BIDCO.
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BIDCO Uganda Oil Refineries Ltd is to step up its production capacity from the current 450 tonnes to 500 tonnes per day. Uganda: Bidco to Boost Palm Oil Production allAfrica Search
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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
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PALM tree out growers in Kalangala district have decried the low prices paid by BIDCO, the manufactures of palm oil in the area. The farmers claim they had an agreement with BIDCO
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According to Mr Kodey Rao, the managing director of Bidco Uganda Limited, the company has not only injected more than $90 million in the nucleus estate and the Mill in Kalangala and the oil palm
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The Ugandan Government along with private investors Wilmar International and BIDCO are developing palm oil plantations on pristine islands in Kalangala, Lake Victoria. The project is promoted as bringing development to the islands, but communities who rely
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The palm oil project is a 2003 public-private-partnership between the government of Uganda and Bidco, in which the Kenyan manufacturer was to invest in production in exchange for serviced land.
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The Bidco Uganda Ltd factory in Jinja. Bidco expects to commence production using crude oil from its palm plantation on the Lake Victoria island of Bugala from mid-2009. This is expected to considerably reduce its production costs as it cuts down on reducing the
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Bidco accused of abetting Uganda land only invited to a joint venture to invest in the palm oil plantation, it has been reported that Bidco Uganda was actually engaged in
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The report follows the planting of almost 10,000 hectares of palm oil plantations by BIDCO off the coast of The joint venture resulted in the formation of BIDCO Uganda Limited and Oil Palm
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The palm oil project is being carried out by Oil Palm Uganda, a subsidiary of local food producer Bidco Uganda. Bidco in turn is a joint venture between global palm oil giant Wilmar International -- backed by several European banks and financiers -- and other international partners.
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THE palm oil processing plant on Lake Victoria Island of Bugala has started operations, and will save Uganda more than $60m on vegetable oil importation.
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However in Uganda, one community is fighting back. Four years ago, an oil palm plantation partly operated by the oil palm giant Wilmar International began on Bugula, a highly biodiverse island on Lake Victoria. Then home to about one hundred small-scale farmers, the project was sold to them with extravagant promises of employment and development.
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Wilmar International, one of the largest oilseeds corporations in the world is developing palm oil plantations in biodiverse islands off the coast of Lake Victoria, Uganda. The project is a partnership of Wilmar with the Government of Uganda, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Kenyan oilseeds company Bidco.
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A JV between Wilmar International & Bidco group, Annual TO of USD 250M based in JINJA Uganda. BUL is a major player in East & Central African market & fastest growing company in the categories it operates. BUL is the only company who owns & operates Palm Oil plantation in
Get PriceStory2tell Mediaproductions was asked by Friends of The earth International to make a short film about landgrabbing in Uganda. We travelled to the Kalangala and Buvuma islands in lake Victoria
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Bidco charms farmers into growing more soybean, sunflower and oil palm for transportation to Oil Palm Uganda Limited’s crude oil expand oil palms plantations beyond the 3
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Wilmar and Bidco are partners in Oil Palm Uganda Ltd, the company that in 2003 signed a 25-year concession to develop a 40,000-hectare oil palm estate in Ssese. Of this, 26,500ha was supposed to be a nuclear estate run on the company while smallholder farmers would grow oil palm on the rest.
Get PriceA 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. Fighting a []
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Bidco owns an oil palm plantation that has deforested 18,000 acres of rainforest in Uganda. Bidco has also grabbed land from over 100 smallholder farmers. The environmental impact of the palm oil
Get PriceWilmar and Bidco are partners in Oil Palm Uganda Ltd, the company that in 2003 signed a 25-year concession to develop a 40,000-hectare oil palm estate in Ssese. Of this, 26,500ha was supposed to be a nuclear estate run on the company while smallholder farmers would grow oil palm on the rest.
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From oil wells springing up along the Albertine Rift Valley, to forested islands on Lake Victoria razed for oil palm plantations, Uganda’s government is supporting the rapid growth of extractive
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