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Indonesia's Astra Agro criticised by green groups over report on grievances
- Reuters
- 30 November 2023
One of the subsidiaries, PT Agro Nusa Abadi (ANA), was accused of seizing farmers' land in several villages covering approximately 5,000 hectares
The “net zero” squeeze on peasants’ rights and land
- FOE
- 17 April 2023
A new rush for “carbon removals” and “offsets” from land, forests and oceans is ramping up repression under the guise of providing “nature based solutions” to the ecological crises.
ING withdraws from complaint against the bank’s involvement in the palm oil sector
- Milieudefensie
- 08 April 2022
The complaint to the OECD lodged by Friends of the Earth was supposed to deal with adverse impacts of three of the bank’s palm oil clients, ranging from human rights and labour rights violations to deforestation
FoEA Solidarity visit and message to Joegbahn Clan Community in Liberia
- FoEA
- 11 September 2019
Friends of the Earth Africa member groups visit the Joegbahn clan community in Liberia, which is facing threats from the Equatorial Oil Palm (EPO) Company to cede their remaining land to allow the company to expand its plantations.
La certification RSPO est un écoblanchiment en Afrique
- FOE Africa
- 22 August 2019
Les groupes Amis de la Terre Afrique ont décrit la convergence des entreprises de plantation de palmiers à huile sous l’égide de la Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable comme promoteurs d’écoblanchiment.
Activists expose role of Dutch banks in the funding of palm oil industry development
- Radio Mundo Real
- 25 July 2018
Friends of the Earth Netherlands launched a report warn that Dutch Banks ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank have to take responsibility for the disastrous environmental and social consequences of providing finance to the palm oil sector at large scale.
American retirement funds contribute to deforestation and climate change
- Mongabay
- 27 November 2016
Friends of the Earth and As You Sow are circulating a letter to TIAA clients calling on the firm to disclose information about all of its investments in companies with farmland and palm oil operations, and to commit to a deforestation- and land grab-free investment policy.
Agroecology cools the planet - so why are Governments backing agribusiness?
- Ecologist
- 14 October 2016
Investing in agroecology requires a drastically different model than the agribusiness-led version many Governments are currently pursuing
Deutsche Bank divests from Bumitama after civil society pressure
- FOEE
- 26 May 2014
Deutsche Bank has told Friends of the Earth Europe and Rettet den Regenwald that it sold its shares in the Indonesian palm oil supplier Bumitama following months of campaigning by the two groups.
Film: The Jogbahn Clan
- FOEi
- 06 May 2014
In Liberia, the Jogbahn Clan have been fighting against a palm oil company grabbing their land.
Resistance to Liberia landgrabs a warning to Africa investment conference
- FOEi
- 06 May 2014
The recent overturning of UK company Equatorial Palm Oil’s access to customary land in Liberia is a warning to all governments and investors that they must respect communities’ rights and ownership of land.
What's driving the palm oil industry's human rights abuses and environmental destruction? Just follow the money
- FOEi
- 09 January 2014
Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.

Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia