De cara al próximo 21 de setiembre, esta vez queremos compartir con ustedes una colección de videos que hemos preparado junto a GRAIN, sobre los impactos de las plantaciones industriales a gran escala de palma aceitera. Los videos, que han sido producidos por diversos compañeros que alrededor del mundo trabajan contra la expansión de las plantaciones industriales de palma, retratan los impactos que sufren las comunidades locales cuando esta expansión se da en sus territorios.
La colección busca aportar información a organizaciones de base, movimientos y activistas, particularmente en África -donde la expansión es más reciente y está teniendo lugar a una velocidad alarmante. La colección intenta compartir información tanto de países de África que ya han tenido experiencias con plantaciones palma aceitera -como Liberia- como de países con una larga y triste historia vinculada a la expansión de plantaciones industriales de palma aceitera -como Indonesia- .
Lamentablemente, la mayoría de los videos se encuentra disponible solamente en inglés.
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Palma Aceitera en África: voces desde las comunidades
World Rainforest Movement, 2013, 7 minutos Las plantaciones industriales de palma aceitera se expanden rápidamente, no solo en Liberia. En muchos países africanos, se implementan o planean proyectos de expansión. A donde sea que arriban, las compañías prometen empleos y desarrollo. Esas promesas nunca se cumplen. Ver aquí : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVNEucB_iQ
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The Oakland Institute, 2012, 21 minutes The very name of American-owned SGSOC – SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon, Ltd.- makes for a pro-environment, pro-resource image. This is supported by an impressive- sounding partnership with an NGO by the name of All for Africa and as a package typifies the kind of convoluted modern-day foreign investment going on in Africa. It is sadly all too familiar to communities on the ground. They are unimpressed with promises of infrastructure and jobs, and angry about their loss of land and livelihoods. It is also part of a strategy to deceive the public into believing that there is logic to cutting down rainforests to make room for palm oil plantations. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgrFvayJhE0
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Friends of the Earth International, 2014, 5 minutes In Liberia, the Jogbahn Clan have been fighting against a palm oil company grabbing their land. In March 2014 Liberia’s President recognized their right to say no to British palm oil company Equatorial Palm Oil PLC. However, despite the President’s commitment, EPO still has not recognised that the Clan said no to their operations. They are conducting studies on the Clan’s land in preparation for clearing. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufMXhc-h9Tg
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Palm oil plantations in Uganda
Friends of the Earth International, 2012, 4 minutes Wilmar International is developing palm oil plantations in biodiverse islands in Lake Victoria, Uganda. The first phase of the project finished in 2011. The second phase is currently going ahead, expanding palm oil plantations to several other islands. The project is being promoted as a poverty-reducing endeavor, yet it is causing displacement, food insecurity and deforestation. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elqurp7lFTI
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Environmental crime: in pursuit of palm oil industry
BastaMag, 2013, 15 minutes Palm oil is massively imported into Europe, to be used for food and biofuels. A new refinery might be established in Port la Nouvelle (Aude – South of France), supported by local authorities (or local governments) like the Languedoc Roussillon region. In West Africa, where palm oil is produced, land grabbing by multinationals and the expropriation of people are skyrocketing. Watch here: http://vimeo.com/40934862 Also available in French. |
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Stop land grabbing! Life, land, and justice in Uganda
Friends of the Earth International, 2012, 5 minutes In Kalangala, Uganda, John Muyisa woke up one day to find bulldozers clearing his land to plant oil palms. John and his community have preserved their forests and lands for generations. Now their way of life is at risk. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QxF61PVC4
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LifeMosaic, 2007, 20 minutes Palmed Off is based on testimonies from indigenous peoples affected by oil palm plantations in Indonesia and explores the impacts of oil palm plantations on their local economies, on the local environment, on their culture and on the prospects for the future generations. Only available in English. Watch here:http://vimeo.com/10234538
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Friends of the Earth International, 2013, 4 minutes A look at the devastation wrought by illegal land grabbing for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnTlASZfk6A
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The Environmental Investigation Agency, 2013, 10 minutes Evidence and testimony from Muara Tae, in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, of the abuses of oil palm company First Resources Ltd thought its subsidiary PT Borneo Surya Mining Jaya (PT Borneo). Only available in English. Watch here: http://vimeo.com/75423415
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Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific, 2013, 13 minutes It was their native customary land until palm oil companies came and claimed it their own. With the help of corrupt politicians, almost 9,000 hectares of forest and agricultural lands were flattened. Fences were put up, barring indigenous peoples from entering their own ancestral land. This is the story of Melikin. The story of many indigenous peoples in Sarawak, Malaysia. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6_RXfVa43I
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Oil Palm Aggression on Palawan UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve
ALDAW Network, 2011, 17 minutes Agrofuels in Palawan, as elsewhere in the Philippines, have been portrayed as a key solution to lower greenhouse gas emission, achieve energy independence, as well as a tool for poverty eradication. With these objects in mind, the Provincial Government of Palawan is strongly promoting agrofuels development, without taking into account the socio-ecological impact of such mono-crop plantations. As a result, thousands of hectares of lands in the province have been set aside for jatropha feedstock and oil palm. Only available in English. Watch here: http://vimeo.com/16570512
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Bajo Aguán: Grito por la Tierra
Alba Sud and Rel-UITA, 30 minutos Producción audiovisual sobre el conflicto por la tierra que se vive en el Bajo Aguán, Honduras. Un conflicto provocado por la expansión de las grandes plantaciones de palma africana. El campesinado organizado lucha por defender su derecho a la tierra. El Bajo Aguán, en Honduras, sufre desde hace años un conflicto provocado por la falta de acceso del campesinado a la tierra y la expansión de las grandes plantaciones de palma africana, que han visto cómo crecía su demanda internacional. Tras el golpe de Estado de 2009 contra el presidente Manuel Zelaya el conflicto se ha agudizado, y la represión sobre el movimiento campesino se ha extendido en un estado de total impunidad. Ver aquí: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdIcyTBnX6k
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EngageMedia, 2012, 6 minutes Video about the struggle of the Malind people against the MIFEE project in West Papua, Indonesia. Alex Mahuze is a Malind tribesman and a sago farmer in Merauke. His clan has for generations lived in harmony with nature. The arrival of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) program has forced him to earn money through other means, which ironically harms the environment. He lost his lands and his culture is threatened, but Alex fights on. Only available in English. Watch here: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/papuanvoicesmerauke/videos/ironic_survival/view
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The Oakland Institute in partnership with the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Bismark Ramu Group, 2013, 36 minutes On Our Land chronicles the experiences of rural communities in Papua New Guinea–giving a voice to those who are losing their land and natural resources to illegal logging operations. The film exposes the failure of current development strategies and highlights community and local NGO struggles to take back what is rightfully theirs. Only available in English. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWoZmq1lYdw |
