“Lowland forests and carbon-rich peat bogs, the most vital landscapes in Southeast Asia’s last great swath of intact rainforest, are the most at risk of clearing by oil palm firms….
The RSPO is the world’s largest annual meeting of oil palm industry, environmentalists, human rights advocates, and, most importantly, community members. Today, I watched as a community member from Borneo…
A new, hard hitting, RAN case study on Cargill’s oil palm operations in PNG, ‘Commodity Colonialism’, is now available for download HERE. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a nation that…
Here at RAN the agribusiness campaign is hard at work pressuring US agribusiness companies, with a focus on the massive privately held company Cargill, to stop their dirty and dangerous…
David Dellatore has faced much criticism for his willingness to work with palm oil companies. NGO’s on the ground in Indonesia face a very different reality than advocacy groups far…
Reuters ran a story this week on illegal palm oil development in Aceh, Indonesia. The story takes an interesting angle, completely ignoring the massive scale of legal oil palm development…
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has frozen new investments in oil palm projects and is reviewing all current oil palm projects. The IFC…
Check out our new page at theproblemwithpalmoil.org. Demand for palm oil is on the rise, and pristine rainforests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for palm oil plantations….
ADM, Bunge, and Cargill can’t hide any more: www.TheProblemWithPalmOil.org just went live. There is no secret about what US Agribusiness companies are doing in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the…
I just returned to Kuching after visiting with seven Indigenous communities in northern Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo). What we saw was a tragic and infuriating picture of collusion between the…
