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Herakles abandons all operations in and Toko The Declaration of the Global Convergence of Land and Water concession areas, Struggles launched in Dakar at the African Social Forum in October 2014 and Published: 04 Jun 2015 reworked in Tunis at the World Social Short URL: http://farmlandgrab.org/25010 Forum in March 2015 is open for signature Posted in: Cameroon | Herakles Farms and engagement.

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SEFE | 4 June 2015 Who's involved?

Herakles abandons all operations in Mundemba and Toko concession areas, Cameroon Select Category by Nasako Besengi, SEFE

Mundemba: - Herakles Farms, a New York based investment Posts Comments Firm and the parent company of SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) which has been under the spotlight of Recent posts increasing local and international opposition for its intention to establish oil palm plantations in protected areas (including Le rêve vert de la Chinaf rique the iconic in south west Cameroon) has 15 Jul 2015 | No Comments abandoned all operations in the Mundemba and Toko Subdivisions respectively and in Division on La CEA, l’Allemagne et la Banque May 29, 2015. mondiale lancent un nouveau The decision was announced to the few remaining workers of Fabe and Lipenja I, Batanga, nurseries on réseau d’excellence sur la May 29, 2015. After their shifts, affected workers notified SEFE of developments. Workers confirmed that gouvernance f oncière the announcement was made by a man who presented himself as the new CEO of the company. The 13 Jul 2015 | No Comments workers said the reason given for suspending operations was to enable Herakles to intensify planting of Cameroun : où en est vraiment la palms in the Nguti area before returning to Mundemba and Toko concessions in 2017/2018. The company Socapalm ? spokesman blamed current management for prioritising timber extraction over planting of palms. 13 Jul 2015 | No Comments Considering their capabilities for carrying out planting this statement was seen as a tactical excuse for a dishonourable exit from the area. “Don’t stop the mill” 13 Jul 2015 | No Comments In April, 2013 during a meeting with investors, Herakles announced their intention to sell their 73,000 ha concession in 2018. But a Presidential decree signed in November 2013, granted the company 19,843 ha Af rican leaders must help of land lease for a 3 year probation period. The decree also demanded the company fulfil certain continent, not sell it of conditions which were not met, notably in the development of social facilities, conducting an 10 Jul 2015 | No Comments environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) in the new concession, and payment of land rents to Power and impunity of the tune of 200,000,000 FCFA. Treasury and local council officials have confirmed to SEFE that Herakles is transnational corporations stifles yet to pay land rents demanded in the Presidential decrees of November 2013, yet are still operating in people's voices the area, in clear violation of the presidential order. 10 Jul 2015 | No Comments

Some workers who solicited advice from SEFE say workers were awarded certificates of appreciation Paraguay: Empresa brasileña and asked to go to the Divisional Office of Labour, Mundemba to receive money. Workers were left def oresta ilegalmente territorio unclear if these represented wages for the month of May or compensation for the entire period they ayoreo have worked in the company. The letters handed to each of the worker simply stated that they should 09 Jul 2015 | No Comments go to the labour office for payment without indicating the amount of money they would receive. 100,000-cow-power dairy f arm in This is not the first time that Herakles has laid off their workers without compensation. An official of the China to f eed Russian market National Social Insurance Fund contacted in Mundemba confirmed Herakles has not registered a single 09 Jul 2015 | No Comments worker in their office. Some of the workers who spoke to SEFE say they are disheartened because they were recently recalled to work and were laid off again a few days later. They vowed to go to the labour T he Global land grab: Giving with office to establish what monies they are due, as indicated in the letters handed to them, saying “we one hand and taking everything have lot of mistrust for Herakles”. with the other 09 Jul 2015 | 1 comment(s)

Last week the company laid off its managers and personnel at its Limbe office. SEFE sources say the Namibia plans to ban f oreigners company has shut down its Limbe office for good. Reports from the two villages of the Ngolo clan (Ikoti f rom owning agricultural land and Mobenge) indicate villagers are very happy with the news. Some weeks ago, communities in villages 09 Jul 2015 | 1 comment(s) where Herakles wanted to proceed with extraction of timber forbade them to continue a land demarcation exercise. Tensions and tempers ran very high in Mundemba/ Toko concessions due to more... Herakles’ unilateral decision to take land from some villages the under names of other villages.

The Mundemba and Toko concession is located astride the Iconic Korup National Park and Rumpi Hills Languages Forest Reserve. The latter being a complex watershed formation with all the freshwater from it draining into the Korup Park. Establishing a huge palm oil plantation in this area would have brought disastrous pollution resulting from pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides and sewage disposal; all affecting the health Amharic Bahasa Indonesia of animals in the Korup Park that depend on the water. Català Catala Dansk Deutsch English Español It is SEFE’s assessment that the Herakles project was simply a poorly conceived project, badly français Italiano Kurdish managed, in the wrong place. Malagasy Nederlands ==== Português Suomi Svenska اﻟﻌﺮﺑﻲ Türkçe NB. For background information, the report "They want to take our bush" summarises the findings from an independent assessment by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) of the processes employed by Herakles/SGSOC to obtain the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of communities to be affected by their palm oil development project in Mundemba and Nguti Subdivisions in South West Cameroon. Special content

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