When palm companies arrived in Guatemala's northern lowlands, they did not evict people to plant palm, but did so strategically through "systematic dispossession".
The village in Guatemala is surrounded by oil palm plantations belonging to the HAME Group but residents feel none of the benefits
- China Dialogue
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25 June 2021
El informe, titulado “Acaparamiento de Tierras en Guatemala: una mirada desde los derechos humanos y los feminismos críticos de América Latina” fue presentado ayer, viernes, en una mesa redonda online y en el marco del Fórum Social Mundial de las Economías Transformadoras.
The Dutch development bank FMO says its investments promote oil palm plantations in local communities. But the local communities are not welcoming these plantations. They want their land back.
A high court of Guatemala has found that two palm oil companies used the criminal justice system to criminalise indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' land defender Abelino Chub Caalun without any evidence
A Mongabay Latam series on the oil palm industry in several Latin American countries has revealed that the advance of oil palm monocultures in Latin America since 2000 has resulted in illegalities, deforestation, environmental pressures, and conflicts with local communities.
In the poor, hot region of Guatemala that was home to a seven-year-old migrant girl before she died in U.S. border custody last month, palm oil cultivation is taking over from subsistence farming, adding to pressure on people to leave.
In Petén, Guatemala, food scarcity is on the rise as arable land shrinks because of land grabbing for oil palm plantations
Front Line Defenders identifies the root causes of violence in Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and the Philippines, where more than 80% of the human rights defenders killed globally over the last four years were murdered.
- The Journal
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14 September 2018
Contamination of water sources, deplorable working conditions, and sexual blackmail in exchange for work, are some of the kinds of violence against women living in and around oil palm plantations in Guatemala and Colombia.
Why did it take years for Cargill and Wilmar to cut off one of Guatemala’s most corrupt companies?
A new study comparing forest loss and cocaine busts supports the theory that drug money is being laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America.