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Investigation confirms more abuses on Cameroon, Sierra Leone Socfin plantations

Victoria Schneider 27 Jun 2024
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023
Activist Emmanuel Elong at the foot of an ancestral tomb on the sacred site of Bayong Mbonjo. Photo by Yannick Kenné.

Palm oil giant hands over sacred community land for reforestation project

Yannick Kenné 4 May 2023
Drying fish on raised racks instead of the sand reduced the fish waste, a success of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Photo by Robert Bociaga for Mongabay.

Human pressures strain Lake Tanganyika’s biodiversity and water quality

Robert Bociaga 9 Sep 2022
A woman harvests palm fruit in a village near Equatorial Palm Oil's former concession in Grand Bassa, Liberia. Image courtesy of the Open Government Partnership via Flickr, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure

Ashoka Mukpo 10 Mar 2022

Gates Foundation among investors backing troubled DRC palm plantation

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Feb 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021

At a ‘certified’ palm oil plantation in Nigeria, soldiers and conflict over land

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Nov 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021
Liberian tropical forest. Image via USAID

Review finds palm oil firm Golden Veroleum cleared carbon-rich Liberian forests

Ashoka Mukpo 3 Mar 2021

Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’

James Fair 7 Aug 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples (commentary)

Mitch Anderson 5 Jun 2020

Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind them

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Oct 2019

Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 13 Apr 2018

Cables reveal US gov’t role in Herakles Farms land grab in Cameroon

Mike Gaworecki 30 Aug 2016

Forest conservation can offset emissions from palm oil expansion in Africa: Study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2016

Palm oil in Cameroon – ‘a blessing or a curse’ to small-scale farmers?

John Cannon 29 Apr 2016

‘This is not empty forest’: Africa’s palm oil surge builds in Cameroon

John Cannon 30 Mar 2016

Cameroon convicts activist campaigning against palm oil company

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Nov 2015

Will palm oil help Liberia? Industry expansion has critics crying foul

Sara Jerving 11 Aug 2015

‘We want our land back’: Liberian communities speak out about big palm oil

Sara Jerving 10 Aug 2015

Palm oil company denies capitalizing on Ebola to advance Liberia operations

Greg Norman 23 Jul 2015

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