I have been attracted by recent reports in the media that people affected by oil activities are not being adequately compensated, but what is ‘adequate compensation?’
It should be recognised that the affected people who are losing their land and being relocated elsewhere are, in most cases, the indigenous communities of those now lucrative areas.
While many governments and civil society supported the negotiation of a declaration, the USA and some European states, as well as Korea and Japan remain opposed.
Press release
6th August 2013
– International environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin
American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm
Oil (RSPO) in Honduras on 6th-8th August
July 21, 2012
Lagos Nigeria
MAKOKO UNDER ATTACK!!!
Demolition Takes a Violent Dimension - One Shot Dead and Many Wounded
Despite the growth in the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, 8 out of every 10 farmers, small-scale producers who are at the base of domestic food production, remain largely excluded from the related benefits. Government efforts for strengthening agriculture allocate public resources to few lines of spending that favour a minority. Investment on small-scale agriculture is difficult to track and where possible, it is disproportionately lower than this group´s contribution to the sector.
