There is an emerging pattern of displacement and human rights violations against Afro-Colombian communities connected to palm oil cultivation. Numerous cases of communities being threatened and attacked by paramilitary groups have been reported. Not long after the communities have fled, vast swathes of land that were once small-scale farms are taken over for palm cultivation. International agri-businesses have been accused of colluding with paramilitary groups and using them as private security contractors in order to gain control over these areas…Civil society members who have attempted to challenge the expansion of biofuels…have…been harassed and threatened, some of them killed or ‘disappeared’ under mysterious circumstances. [refers to Cadbury, Heinz, Walkers (part of PepsiCo)]