16 businessmen sentenced to prison for paramilitary ties
A Medellin court sentenced 16 businessmen behind a large palm oil project in western Colombia to prison for using paramilitary groups to illegally obtain territory for their businesses.
A Medellin court sentenced 16 businessmen behind a large palm oil project in western Colombia to prison for using paramilitary groups to illegally obtain territory for their businesses.
Colombia’s palm oil producers have called on the country’s government to protect the sector’s profitability against the rising local currency, and continuing environmental and ethical concerns surrounding the industry’s practice,…
A rural advocacy group has written an open letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos highlighting threats it allegedly received from a locally based palm oil company, local media reported…
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…
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…
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 visit the…
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…
The world’s second largest cosmetic franchise, the Body Shop, has dropped its palm oil supplier in Colombia after reports of the forced removal of peasant farmers from a new plantation. The…
Following a visit to Colombia, Swiss Senator Carlo Sommaruga told Colombia Reports that he believes that the Colombian government is downplaying human rights abuses in order to maintain its free trade…