miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2013

Major palm oil companies accused of breaking ethical promises

This New talks about Pal Oil companies situated in Asia and Africa that don’t respect land rights of local people, damaging wildlife and destroying forests. There is concern about the environmental and social impacts of the result of plantations across the forests, caused by the growing global demand for palm oil. Is such a problem that communities in Asia and Africa are being pushed aside to make way for large plantations, which could induce the loss of the tiger.
There is a concession of palm oil companies called Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) that certificates the product is sustainable and that tries to regulate and guide these companies to use good practices over land and plantations. They admit that there is a huge problem and maybe some companies are abusing and ignoring human rights, but they also say that there is no legal compulsion on members to comply with RSPO's principles and criteria. They give no solution, but member companies can simply opt to leave the RSPO and not be ruled by them anymore.
Geography studies the physical and human characteristics of environment, for this reason it is a geographic problem because the land as property and in relation with human activities generates a conflict that has effects in the environment and in local people.

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