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8 Jul 2015

Author:
Friends of the Earth US/Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria

Nigeria: NGO report alleges land grabs by Wilmar International

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'Exploitation and empty promises: Wilmar’s Nigerian land grab', 8 Jul 2015:…Since 2010, Wilmar International has acquired thirty-thousand of hectares of land for palm oil plantations in...Nigeria…and the company plans to expand [further]…Wilmar’s…land acquisitions…process has generated concern, conflict, and resistance. This report…finds that Wilmar’s operations…have…failed to meet the company’s obligations to gain the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of communities…bypass best practices in community consultation…failed to produce adequate Environmental and Social Impact Assessments…failed to live up to promises of infrastructure development and benefit sharing…destroyed areas of High Conservation Value, including food-producing areas and water sources essential to local communities...[and] le[d]…to deforestation…This report therefore recommends th[at]…Wilmar…halt its…expansion plans…immediately…[and]…the Nigerian government…[should] prevent the dispossession of rural communities…[F]inanciers of…Wilmar…should approach palm oil…as a high-risk investment requiring…enhanced due diligence [and]…the international community should support the…call…for a binding treaty to prevent and redress human rights violations arising from the operations of transnational corporations…

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