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Secret Ingredient: A year of inaction

22.09.2025 Satellite imagery reveals that exposed soy producers have cleared an additional 986 hectares since May 2024

How sustainable is sustainable soy?

27.11.2024 RTRS’s weak standard is facilitating the greenwashing of deforesters and land grabbers in the Cerrado

Secret Ingredient: A shocking scandal in the chicken we eat and its lessons for European lawmakers

26.09.2024 Chicken sold by fast-food giant and leading European supermarkets linked to land grabbing, rights abuses, corruption and deforestation in the Cerrado

Press release: Secret Ingredient

26.09.2024 McDonald’s and some of Europe’s leading supermarkets are linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in the Brazilian Cerrado

New ISPO regulation underpinning Indonesian palm oil diplomacy branded as 'regressive'

30.04.2020 Recent “reform” of palm oil sustainability scheme criticised for threatening forests and human rights

Norwegian wealth fund divests from Alicorp over palm oil-linked destruction in Peruvian Amazon

10.03.2020 Alicorp purchased palm oil from the Ocho Sur plantation where a reported 7,000ha of forest was destroyed and indigenous communities displaced

'Fake' permits underpin world’s biggest palm oil project in Indonesian Papua

20.12.2019 Local officials reported to their superiors as long ago as 2013 that all seven plantation operation permits at the 2,800 square kilometre “Tanah Merah” project were faked, but no action taken

UN deadline looms for Peru to revisit law threatening 100,000 hectares of Amazon

14.11.2019 A proposed new law in Ucayali would remove safeguards for 3.5 million hectares of forest

RSPO conference rocked by multiple NGO reports of illegalities in member concessions

08.11.2019 Allegations including widespread illegal fires, human rights abuses, fraudulent certifications and permitting irregularities ignored by global palm oil certification body

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