Cameroon: U.S. Firm Under Fire Over Palm Oil Project
A U.S-based agribusiness is stirring up controversy over its huge palm oil project in Cameroon where environmentalists have warned it will destroy the rainforest and displace locals.
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Cameroon: U.S. Firm Under Fire Over Palm Oil Project
AlertNet, 24 September 2012
A huge palm oil project in Cameroon's rainforest, led by a U.S.-based agribusiness, Herakles Farms, is stirring up controversy. Environmentalists warn it will destroy precious ... read more »
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Cameroon: U.S. Company Accused of Greenwashing 'Land-Grab'
Inter Press Service, 6 September 2012
Environment groups are accusing a New York-based agricultural company, Herakles Farms, of going forward with plans for a 73,000-hectare palm-oil plantation and refinery in ... read more »
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Central Africa: Ten Countries Unite to Protect Rainforests
SciDev.Net, 4 September 2012
Ten central African countries have come together to protect the Congo Basin rainforest - the world's second largest rainforest - from severe deforestation, through implementing ... read more »
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Cameroon: Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon
Inter Press Service, 30 August 2012
Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. read more »
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Cameroon: Green Economy Promoted in Littoral
Cameroon Tribune, 27 August 2012
A campaign to plant trees and maintain existing trees has been launched in Douala with the donation of work tools to some associations to plant and maintain trees. The ceremony ... read more »
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Cameroon: Redd Processes Reinforces Community Rights
Cameroon Tribune, 26 August 2012
Representatives of eleven countries from East, West and Central Africa which have large forests zones met in a workshop from August 21 to 23 to seek ways of working together using ... read more »
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Cameroon: Biodiversity Conservation Plan Under Review
Cameroon Tribune, 26 August 2012
Stakeholders converged on Bamenda recently to revise the document for optimum use. read more »
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Cameroon: Elephants Destroy Farms, Property
Cameroon Tribune, 26 August 2012
Food shortages and price hikes have been witnessed in Mundemba in the South West Region as elephants rampage farms. read more »
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Cameroon: Nation Enlists Women in Reforestation Effort
AlertNet, 23 August 2012
While Cameroon's green forest canopies appear to stretch out endlessly over the horizon, they are in fact getting smaller every year. read more »
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Nigeria: Bakassi - Cameroon Violates Major Provision of Green Tree Agreement
Leadership, 22 August 2012
The embattled people of Bakassi have said that Cameroon has violated the major provisions of the Green Tree Agreement (GTA) ahead of its final endorsement last year, saying ... read more »
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answer to mr wild wind WHO TOLD YOU THAT CAMEROON, IS SET UP BY FRENCH COMMON, I DONT KNOW OF ANT COUNTRY IN AFRICA THATS WAS SETUP BY A EUROPEAN COUNTRY< OF COURSE THERE WAS COLONIZATION, BUT THATS NOT TO SAY, AFRICANS ARE NT OWNERS OF AFRICAN LAND AND WHAT EVER ELSE AFRICAN> SOO, THE PEOPLE MUST BE WEAPONIZED TO PROTECT THEIR FARMLAND AND FOREST, FROM AMEROCANS, FRENCH OR WHO EVR THIEFS COMING FAR OR NEAR AND SHOOT THE HIS ASS.
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So herakles creates an NGO led by the CEO of the company in order to "help the poor Africans". This is the best example of the illicit relationships between foreign companies and NGOS in Africa. The NGOs are simply fronts for the same companies stealing the land and resources of Africa. The NGOs are the ones putting the articles all over the web talking about how they want to "help Africans". The NGOs are the ones claiming that the issues in Africa are due to "climate change". But the reality is that the problems stem from the companies taking all the land and resources for themselves and leaving Africans as landless peasants. But you wont hear that on the news. And the Africans are supposed to fall down and praise these clowns for "helping" them? How is that any different from what has happened over the last 200 years of colonization in Africa? It isn't. NGOs are simply modern day missionaries and PR agencies designed to cover up and hide the continued exploitation and slavery of Africans. And the most sinister part is that the PR is purposely designed to represent these foreigners and Europeans as "saviors" of Africa, when the reality is just the opposite.
All development starts with the land. You cannot have development without land ownership. All economics and trade starts with land ownership. Without land ownership you cannot make a profit. You cannot legally buy and sell. You cannot make decisions on what to grow and how much. You cannot get a loan and you cannot start a business. This is exactly why these foreigners and their government lackeys will never ever support Africans owning their own land and producing their own crops for their own consumption. The governments give away the land and allow the NGOs to come in and become surrogates for true independent African economic development, while the real economy is based around foreigners paying Africans pennies on the dollar and exporting the wealth and resources out of the continent. It is simply the colonial plantation model of economics that was begun hundreds of years ago and it has not changed.
And those "tribal leaders" who say this will bring development are either sellouts or just plain ignorant.
I mean how on earth is it that in the year 2012 Africans need foreigners and Europeans to provide them the basics of life? Seriously. If Africans are the oldest humans on the planet then how on earth is that? They have survived every climate and every time of environmental condition on earth for all this time but now suddenly cannot feed themselves? Are you serious. Africans should be ashamed of themselves. By that logic, Africans should have been dead a long time ago because no foreigners and Europeans were there to give them food and clothing....
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