16 businessmen sentenced to prison for paramilitary ties
A Medellin court sentenced 16 businessmen behind a large palm oil project in western Colombia to...
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Colombia palm oil industry asks for help over expensive peso
Colombia’s palm oil producers have called on the country’s government to protect the...
Palm oil company threatens northern Colombia displacement victims
A rural advocacy group has written an open letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos...
Colombia to indict 19 palm oil companies for forced displacement
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office will charge 19 palm oil businesses after they allegedly met with paramiliatries and arranged for residents in the western department of Choco to be violently displaced from their...
Jaguars may adapt to Colombian palm oil plantations, scientists say
In Colombia, the greatest threat to the endangered jaguar is no longer poachers–it’s the palm oil tree, local media reported Monday. South America’s largest wild cat is not the first animal to lose out to the...
Farmers deny faking displacement, as Colombia opens investigation
Farmers living in Las Pavas, Caldas department, have vigorously denied lying about forced displacement, as Colombia’s Prosecutor General announces an investigation. Viviane Morales, Colombia’s top prosecutor, is to...
Biofuels fuel Colombia’s conflict
An article published recently in the New York Times celebrated the cultivation of oil palm, used to make biofuel, as a promising alternative to drug cultivation in Colombia. At first glance, the article is both convincing and...
