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Resistance against industrial oil palm plantations in West and Central Africa   For many decades, communities in West and Central Africa have been facing industrial oil palm plantations encroaching onto their community land. With the false promise of bringing ‘development’ and jobs, corporations, backed up by the support of the governments, have been granted millions of hectares of land under concessions for industrial oil palm plantations.   The results of this expansion have been disastrous for communities living in and around these industrial plantations and, in particular, for women.   In response, grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land. At the heart of these struggles is the community desire to get their lands back.  Exchanges with community activists involved in similar struggles helps

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