Farmers in the Philippines band together against palm oil plantations
Indigenous peoples and small farmers in the Philippines created a new alliance, the Coalition Against Land Grabbing (CALG), in order to prevent palm oil plantation expansion in the province of Palawan....
View ArticleEbola and Palm Oil
The real drivers of Ebola in West Africa–poverty and oil palm A new article in the Ecologist links the underlying causes of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to the “explosive spread of industrial oil...
View ArticlePapua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry...
The below press release and letter was originally posted 12 November 2014 by awasMIFEE!, a group of independent activists in the UK in solidarity with the people of the Merauke and elsewhere in West...
View ArticleCan the bulldozers in Indonesia be stopped?
Back in September, world leaders and major corporations joined the New York Declaration on Forests at the UN Climate Summit. From Germany to the U.S., Nestle to Kellogg’s, the signatures on this...
View ArticleIndonesia’s new president makes promising steps to curb plantations
Jeff Conant is International Forests Campaigner for Friends of the Earth-U.S. He is also a good friend and former Communications Director for Global Justice Ecology Project. Indonesia’s New President...
View ArticleTruthout | Palm Oil and Extreme Violence in Honduras
The Inexorable Rise and Dubious Reform of Grupo Dinant By Jeff Conant, Truthout. 8 December 2014 [News Analysis] As one of the fastest growing global commodities, palm oil has recently earned a...
View ArticleIndonesia’s deadly price of palm oil
Palm oil plantations in Indonesia, one of the world’s leading producers of the product, can be highly lucrative for their economy. The oil is used in everything from cosmetics to biofuels and major...
View Article
