Sentences with phrase «develop oil palm plantations»

International NGOs are denouncing the charges brought against Nasako Besingi, a leader in the fight against a project by U.S. agribusiness giant Herakles Farms to develop oil palm plantations in Cameroon.

Not exact matches

The Republic of Guinea has selected Malaysia - based K Global Ventures (KGV) to develop a palm oil plantation in the country....

Our certifications verify the palm plantations we source from are not developed by removing rain forests, but by converting pre-existing agricultural land to palm oil production.

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares of primary forest in Sabah is being cleared to develop oil - palm plantations (22 October, p 7).

PALM PRESSER Otherwise identical cloned oil palms (a plantation shown) can develop a flaw that ruins crops.

Greenpeace also claims that Sud - Cameroun Hevea, a company owned mostly by Singapore's GMG, is developing rubber and palm oil plantations that threaten the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest and best protected rainforests in Africa.

To grow those effects, the scientists recommend that the RSPO target oil palm companies developing forest frontiers instead of those working with long - ago developed plantations.

Without the safeguard, REDD monies projected to help developing countries protect their remaining forests and reduce the 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction could instead allow industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations.

(10/05/2010) A UK - based cosmetics firm is severing ties with its palm oil supplier after a story in The Observer reported the Colombia - based company sought the eviction of peasant farmer families to develop a new oil palm plantation, reports the Guardian.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

What this shows is that the majority of oil palm plantations were developed on degraded lands, meaning forests converted to ferns, grasslands and scrubs by drought and recurrent burning, mainly during El Nino years,» Gaveau said in a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

Helpful to a limited extent, as the energy returned is good for energy invested, BUT the developed world is driving up the price of cooking oil for the poorer countries by using food crops for biofuel and by folks putting palm plantations in places that could be growing food.

And, according to the Ecosystem Climate Alliance, when it comes to aspects of the REDD forest protection scheme the European Union is actively blocking protecting intact forests from being converted to plantations: The ECA says the blocking by the EU — with the support of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo — of language to prevent forest - to - plantation conversions essentially means that «industrial - scale logging and replacement of tropical forests with pulp or palm oil plantations could be funded by money intended to help developing countries reduce the 25 % of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and peatland destruction.»