A new wave of land conflicts between a major palm oil company and local communities has recently broken out in the Brazilian Amazon, raising concerns about escalating violence in the region. Indigenous peoples and Quilombolas descendants of runaway enslaved Afro-Brazilians in northern Pará state accuse the country’s top palm oil exporter, Brasil BioFuels […]
A Mongabay investigation into land-grabbing in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the suspension of the sustainability certificate of the country’s second top palm oil exporter, as shown in email correspondence seen by this reporter, in addition to key sources of the case. Agropalma, the only Brazilian company with the sustainability certificate issued by the Roundtable […]
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ALTO ACARÁ, Brazil With trembling hands, Raimundo Serrão lights candles for his grandmother at the Livramento Cemetery’s cross on the Day of the Dead because he couldn’t find her grave. Serrão and others in the area say one of the country’s leading palm oil exporters has buried it under palm crops. “They have planted […]
Brasil BioFuels’ plantations in northeast Pará overlap with areas claimed by indigenous and quilombola communities; the company has signed a billion-dollar deal with the largest distributor of aviation fuel in the country