Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon: An Opportunity to Stop
Palm Oil Plantation ... the probationary lease comes to an end and the Cameroonian government must decide whether or not to stop this controversial project. ... The SGSOC oil palm project is a ...
Let’s stop SGSOC palm oil plantation project Blogpost by Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue - October 4, 2024 at 12:01 Add comment When I arrived in Babensi II village last July, the whole community was desperately expecting Greenpeace and its partners to provide them with answers and solutions to get their land back.
Stop the SGSOC palm oil plantation
Local communities affected by this large-scale palm oil plantation have taken their case to the Court of First Instance in Bangem, south-west Cameroon, with the first hearing set for 9 November.
When I arrived in Babensi II village last July, the whole community was desperately expecting Greenpeace and its partners to provide them with answers and solutions to get their land back. For three years now, many of them have been deprived of their farms and crops, taken by SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) palm oil plantation by false promises and without proper consultation or informed ...
Lets Stop SGSOC Palm Oil Plantation Project | The Ghana Star
Lets Stop SGSOC Palm Oil Plantation Project Nov 15, 2024 Opinion When I arrived in Babensi II village last July, the whole community was desperately expecting Greenpeace and its partners to provide them with answers and solutions to get their land back.
244 Cameroonian farmers bring SGSOC palm oil plantation to justice. Greenpeace Africa, who documented the abuse made by the company for the last seven years, launches a call in support for the communities
Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon: An Opportunity to Stop
Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon: An Opportunity to Stop “The Wrong Project in the Wrong Place” ... The SGSOC oil palm project is a prime example of the extremely concerning forest conversion projects that have proliferated throughout the Congo Basin in recent years. These projects share many of the following characteristics: questionable ...
Stop the advance of oil palm plantations in Gabon! A Nigeria-based agribusiness corporation wants to clear half a million hectares of rainforest in Gabon – an area more than three times the size of London! – for oil palm and rubber plantations. Local communities are not taking this lying down and are calling for your support.
Fires in Indonesia and Beyond - Together for Justice
Massive deforestation to make way for oil palm plantations is happening in Indonesia right now and started on a much smaller scale in 1911, when Indonesia’s first commercial oil palm plantation was established in Sumatra. By 2007, the U.N. declared that the palm oil industry was the leading cause of deforestation in Indonesia.
Cameroon: Stop Palm Oil Plantations from Destroying Africa’s Ancient Rainforests and Local Livelihoods intern Thu, 02/16/2024 - 14:00 Herakles Farms, a US company, has been chopping down miles of dense forest without the full authority to do so -- and in the face of desperate pleas and resistance from local communities.
244 Cameroonian farmers bring SGSOC palm oil plantation
244 Cameroonian farmers bring SGSOC palm oil plantation to justice: . Local communities affected by this large-scale palm oil plantation have taken their case to the Court of First Instance in Bangem, south-west Cameroon, with the first hearing set for 9 November.
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The Problem with Palm Oil and What You Can Do About It
Putting Palm Oil In Perspective Animals. One in 32 of the world’s mammals are found in the Leuser Ecosystem, which is located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.The Leuser Ecosystem is the last ...
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4. TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND INNOVATIONS IN SMALL-SCALE
Pounding (digestion) and oil extraction are the most tedious and essential operations in traditional palm fruit processing; therefore early efforts concentrated on these tasks. In small-scale processing, digestion, the breaking up of the oil-bearing cells of the palm fruit’s mesocarp, is the most labour intensive.
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Palm oil
Between 1962 and 1982 global exports of palm oil increased from around half a million to 2.4 million tonnes annually and in 2008 world production of palm oil and palm kernel oil amounted to 48 million tonnes.
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6 Ways to Avoid Palm Oil | Endangered Orangutans
These rainforests are being cleared at the rate of 300 football fields per hour to make way for palm oil plantations. Displaced orangutans who wander into farmland are considered agricultural pests and are often killed. At this rate, endangered orangutans will likely be extinct within 10-20 years.
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Palm oil – deforestation for everyday products
Stop the advance of oil palm plantations in Gabon! A Nigeria-based agribusiness corporation wants to clear half a million hectares of rainforest in Gabon – an area more than three times the size of London! – for oil palm and rubber plantations. Local communities are not taking this lying down and are calling for your support.
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Indonesia deforestation: The world’s demand for palm oil
People are choking on smoke. Orangutans are dying. Farmers are clearing land the fastest way they know how to cash in on demand for palm oil, which is used in half of all supermarket products.
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RSPO questions effectiveness of Indonesian palm plantation
There hasn’t been any quantifiable way to tell if a year-long moratorium on issuing new licenses for oil palm plantations has been effective, observers say. Indonesia imposed the moratorium last ...
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The Cost of Palm Oil | Common Dreams Views
Pilacapio is asking Cargill to: 1) stop the expansion of palm oil plantations, particularly from traditional landowners and onto virgin lands; 2) share its profits with local governments and landowners; 3) provide workers with better wages and working conditions; and 4) clean up water that is downstream from their milling plant.
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How a palm oil company is fighting slash and burn culture
Eco-Business Special Report How a palm oil company is fighting slash and burn culture A year and a half after the worst bout of haze ever to hit Southeast Asia, Eco-Business investigates how the world’s second largest palm oil company is living up to a promise to stop the burning of peat forests to make way for plantations.
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The Oil Palm Tree – MPOC
The oil palm plantations in Malaysia are largely based on the estate management system and smallholder scheme. Today, 4.49 million hectares of land in Malaysia is under oil palm cultivation; producing 17.73 million tonnes of palm oil and 2.13 tonnes of palm kernel oil.
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4. TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND INNOVATIONS IN SMALL-SCALE
Pounding (digestion) and oil extraction are the most tedious and essential operations in traditional palm fruit processing; therefore early efforts concentrated on these tasks. In small-scale processing, digestion, the breaking up of the oil-bearing cells of the palm fruit’s mesocarp, is the most labour intensive.
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Palm oil and deforestation
Palm oil is the most commonly consumed vegetable oil in the world and can be found in around half of the packaged goods in supermarkets globally, ranging from staples (such as bread and noodles) via cosmetics (shampoo and lipsticks) to luxuries (ice cream and dessert). Compared with other vegetable oils, it is an efficient and cost-effective product that requires roughly half the amount of ...
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Oil Palm | Projects | LifeMosaic
244 Cameroonian farmers bring SGSOC palm oil plantation to justice. Yaounde - Local communities affected by a large-scale palm oil plantation took their case to the Court of First Instance in Bangem, south-west Cameroon, with the first hearing set for 9 November.
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Questions and answers about palm oil - Rainforest Rescue
Palm oil plays a decisive role in the lives of almost everyone of us. Being a low-cost resource, palm oil is in great demand and is contained in virtually everything. You can find it in foods ranging from frozen pizza to chocolate bars, in laundry detergents and cleaning agents, in cosmetics, in diesel fuel tanks and in combined heat and power plants.
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Cameroon: the dark side of the agri-business
More harm than good. Cameroon is in urgent need of economic growth and job creation. With its population estimated to be close to 22.4 million, according to the World bank, the poverty headcount ratio is $1.90 a day.
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4.1 Mechanical extraction. Pounding (digestion) and oil extraction are the most tedious and essential operations in traditional palm fruit processing; therefore early efforts concentrated on these tasks. In small-scale processing, digestion, the breaking up of the oil-bearing cells of the palm fruit’s mesocarp, is the most labour intensive.
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EIA : Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon: An Opportunity
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON — In anticipation of a crucial decision to be made by the Government of Cameroon on the renewal of a land lease for a controversial oil palm project, EIA releases today a video that shows how the large-scale project has negatively impacted the lives of thousands of community members, threatened biodiversity hotspots, and failed to meet development promises to local ...
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Carbon costs and benefits of Indonesian rainforest
Table 1 Gain and cost of land-use change ... Oil palm plantations, ... and the fact that soil erosion does not stop in mature plantations 43 indicate an increase in the relative contribution of ...
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Palm Oil – EIA Global
Palm Oil Plantation in Cameroon: An Opportunity to Stop “The Wrong Project in the Wrong Place” Press Release EIA has released a short documentary film on local communities in Southwest Cameroon ahead of a critical decision by the Cameroonian government.
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