'International Declaration Against
the 'Greenwashing' of Palm Oil
by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)


In defence of Human Rights, Food Sovereignty, 
Biodiversity and Climate Justice


Ironically, on 16 October 2008, World Food and Food Sovereignty Day, a meeting 
will start in Cartagena (Colombia) to promote monoculture oil palm plantations, 
that are precisely the cause of so many violations of the Right to Food and contrary 
to food sovereignty insofar as they undermine the peoples’ right to produce their 
own food according to their territorial conditions and their food culture. 

The First Latin American Meeting of the “Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) 
is a meeting of the board of directors of the Roundtable and representatives of 
companies involved in the oil palm agro-industry in Latin America, seeking to “acquire 
the corresponding certification from RSPO mainly in order to put palm oil, its 
derivatives and products on international markets.”1 This is yet another attempt at 
“green-washing” the agro-industry, in response to all the negative publicity that it has 
had regarding the food crisis and in response to widespread world social and political 
opposition to expansion plans for the present model of agrofuel production.2 

In Colombia, social and environmental organisations denounce that “Roundtable on 
Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), is based on the false premise of establishing criteria for 
sustainability and giving a stamp of approval to palm plantations, in order to sell the 
product with social and environmental guarantees, thus seeking to legitimize a harmful 
business that infringes on the rights of indigenous, Afro-Colombian and peasant 
communities. At the same time as it seriously impacts lands and natural heritage 
through a strategy that seeks to facilitate the marketing of products derived from the oil 
palm, the RSPO generates only higher dividends, and not solutions to the conflicts that 
are created. In fact, no certification process can guarantee such solutions”. 

Palm oil is a strategic raw material in the agribusiness sector as it is the most marketed 
and consumed vegetable oil in the world, used as food and in industrial and energy 
products. It is produced for export to global markets (basically the EU, China, India, 
and the US) in tropical zones, under a regime of large-scale monoculture. 

The negative consequences of monoculture oil palm plantations are tangible in 
Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua-New Guinea, Cameroon, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire, Cambodia, 
Philippines and Thailand and also in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Guatemala, 
Mexico, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Below we give some details of these negative 
impacts: 

· Deforestation of tropical forests 
Monoculture plantations replace tropical forests and other ecosystems, leading to 
serious deforestation together with loss of biodiversity, flooding, the worsening of 

1 http://www.fedepalma.org 
2 The 6th Annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and the 5th Annual General Assembly of Members 
is to be held in Bali (Indonesia) on 28 November 2008. 


droughts, soil erosion, pollution of water courses and the apparition of pests due to a 
breakdown in the ecological balance and to changes in food chains. They also endanger 
the conservation of water, soil, flora and fauna. Forest degradation diminishes their 
climatic functions and their disappearance affects humanity as a whole. 

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Forests has identified government policies 
replacing forests by industrial tree plantations – such as the oil palm – together with the 
advance of agricultural frontiers under pressure from monoculture plantations, as the 
causes of deforestation and forest degradation. 

The expansion of oil palm trees is the first cause of deforestation in Malaysia and 
Indonesia. In both countries, the deforestation rate has dramatically increased over the 
past few years, parallel to the expansion of the oil palm. In the case of Malaysia it rose 
by 86% between 1990 and 2000 and between 2000 and 2005, while oil palm plantations 
extended over 4.2 million hectares. Indonesia, with the most extensive area under oil 
palm plantation has the highest rate of tropical forest destruction in the world. 

· More Climate Change 
At present deforestation in the world is the second largest source contributing to 
increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. In many countries, the expansion of 
monoculture oil palm plantations has taken place at the expense of peatland degradation 
and burning and of deforestation. 

Various scientific studies3 warn that the destruction of peatlands4 involves at least 8% of 
world CO2 emissions responsible for Climate Change. It is estimated that due to 
peatland degradation, between 136 million and 1.42 million tons of CO2, are released 
periodically in Southeast Asia, in addition to emissions from deforestation, loss of soil 
carbon, use of nitrogen fertilizers, emissions from farm machinery and loss of CO2 
sinks. Satellite images show forest fires in Indonesia in the areas where there is greater 
carbon trapping in the soil, a product of deforestation practices related with palm oil 
production. Palm oil resulting from deforestation is sold to multinational corporations 
such as Unilever, Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, and other major food, cosmetic and 
agrofuel brands. 

Furthermore, palm oil is being used for the industrial production of agrofuels, in the 
midst of the climate change crisis caused by indiscriminate burning of fossil fuels. 
Nevertheless, the Swedish Government, among many other institutions, has recognized 
in a study by the National Highway Authority that “increasing the amount of bio-fuel by 
importing palm oil may increase the emission of CO2 instead of reducing it”.5 

3 Hooijer, A., Silvius, M., Wösten, H. and Page, S. 2006. PEAT-CO2, Assessment of CO2 emissions from 

drained peatlands in SE Asia. Delft Hydraulics report Q3943 (2006). 
4 Peatland covers 3% of the terrestrial surface (close on 4 million km2) and traps an important amount of 
carbon in the earth (some 528.000 million tons M/t), the equivalent to one-third of all the carbon 
reservoirs and 70 times more than the annual emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels (approximately 
7,000 Mt/year in 2006 equivalent to carbon and 26,000 Mt/year in CO2). This mega reservoir of carbon 
dioxide is being released little by little into the atmosphere by: (1) draining of peatlands leading to their 
oxidation on entering into contact with the air, resulting in huge emissions of CO2; and (2) intentional 
forest fires (dry peat causes an even greater ignition hazard and, in a scenario of higher temperatures due 
to Climate Change, we are talking about a vicious circle). 
5 Vägverket: Climate neutral freight transports on road – a scientific prestudy. 2007. 


• A threat to millions of indigenous people 
According to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 60 million indigenous 
people all over the world run the risk of loosing their land and means of subsistence due 
to the expansion of plantations to produce agro-energy. Of these, 5 million people are 
located in Borneo (Indonesia) where the indigenous communities are threatened by 
plans for the expansion of oil palm plantations. What is more, the Government of 
Malaysia does not even recognize ancestral or indigenous territorial rights. Plantations 
are being established in lands claimed by indigenous communities and the Government 
has foreseen establishing another million hectares of new oil palm plantations on 
indigenous land. Similar situations also occur in other countries. 

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Forests identified the lack of recognition by the 
State of territorial rights and of the right to use forests and other resources of indigenous 
and other peoples who depend on forests, such as the Afro-Colombian communities, as 
the causes of deforestation. 

As an example we mention the strategic plan for the plantation of agrofuel species just 
for the State of Chiapas (Mexico) – a spearhead and national example – establishing as 
a potential area in this State, 900,000 ha (one-seventh of the total area of the State). Two 
nurseries for African palm trees have already been established to the south of the 
Lacandona Forest, the largest nurseries in Latin America. This megaproject has been 
labelled as ecocidal and ethnocidal by allowing and encouraging individual land 
deeding and the subsequent privatization of lands belonging to indigenous peoples and 
peasant communities, known in Mexico as ejidos and common lands. 

• Illegal appropriation of land, land tenure conflicts and violation of human 
rights 
The occupation of territories by monoculture oil palm plantations has been done at the 
expense of local communities’ rights and has led to the destruction of their social web, 
their culture and biologically diverse ecosystems, thus damaging the means of 
subsistence on which their lives depend. Indigenous communities and Afro-descendent 
communities have been violently evicted or forced to displacement. Sometimes, through 
State violence or that of other armed parties, deception and pressure, they end up by 
renting out, selling or loosing their lands. 

In the case of Colombia, the expansion of oil palm plantations is related to serious 
human rights abuse and violation. International NGOs in Colombia have documented 
113 murders in the river basin of the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó rivers in the Choco 
region, in the hands of paramilitary forces working with palm-growing companies to 
enable them to allocate lands that legally belong to Afro-Colombian communities. The 
paramilitary forces operate with the support of Brigade 17 of the Colombian Armed 
Forces and are responsible for 13 forced displacements. The paramilitary strategy used 
in complicity with Colombian Armed Forces includes an economic blockade, selective 
murdering, massacres and torture. In spite of the evidence showing that the 
establishment of these oil palm plantations is illegal (as has been recognized by the 
Office of the General Attorney and Defender of the People of Colombia and the Inter

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American Commission on Human Rights, etc.) and showing the destruction of human 
lives, the Colombian government has not taken any effective measures to prevent the 
situation or to return the land to the Afro-Colombian communities. 

The expansion of monoculture plantations threatens the lives, lands and habits of Afrodescendent, indigenous and peasant communities, not only in the Choco but also in 
Tumaco, Magdalena Medio, Vichada, Meta and the Amazon regions. According to the 
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 200,000 people are displaced every year in 
Colombia, amounting to 4 million over the past 20 years – the second highest rate of 
displacement in the world – with the expropriation of over 6 million hectares of land. 
Most of the forced displacements are directly related to land issues, including the 
expansion of monoculture palm plantations. 

In Indonesia conflicts have increased over the expansion of oil palm plantations: the 
large companies are illegally expropriating the farmers’ lands and hiring private 
surveillance to impose a state of fact. In 2006 alone, 350 agrarian conflicts and 1,753 
cases of violation of Human Rights were recorded. 

In Ecuador, oil palm plantations have caused the loss of unique primary forests that 
were part of community and ancestral lands, depleting sources of water, food, medicine, 
spirituality and culture. Presently the Government’s Agrarian and Forestry Plan 
foresees establishing over 450,000 ha of oil palm plantations, among other monoculture 
plantations for the production of agrofuel. This will occupy tropical forests and food 
crops on indigenous, Afro-Ecuadoran and peasant community territories. Their human 
right to water will be severely violated. 

· Increase in the use of agrochemicals 
The RSPO “Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Production of Oil Palm” permit the 
use of very toxic pesticides that are extremely harmful for human and environmental 
health. Under their present form, the criteria serve the interests of the pesticide industry 
and not the health of palm oil plantation workers. 

Although for many years now complaints have been made over the noxious effects of 
the use of Paraquat (its largest world producer is Syngenta) or Gramoxone on the health 
of women and men who work in monoculture palm oil plantations, every year tens of 
thousands of workers are contaminated by these agrochemicals and many die from 
being in contact with these extremely dangerous pesticides. 

· Violation of the Right to food and food sovereignty 
Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to nutritious and culturally appropriate, 
accessible food, produced in a sustainable and ecological manner and their right to 
decide on their own food and productive system. 

The production of palm oil in the present globalized economic model of industrial 
agriculture – with large-scale monoculture plantations – and at the pace of economic 
interests, involves competition with food production. Another matter for concern is the 
counter Agrarian reform that accompanies this model, in which large industrial groups 
take over the control of vast stretches of land, thus strengthening labour exploitation, 
rural-urban migration, poverty, social conflicts and violation of Human Rights. 


Presently there are over 1000 million people in the world suffering from hunger and 
malnutrition. The UN World Food Programme estimates that some other 100 million 
people are unable to eat because of the steep rise in food prices over the past three years. 
The reasons are complex however, according to a confidential report of the World Bank 
agrofuels have led to a rise of up to 75% in the price of food – a much higher increase 
than previously thought. And there is a clear consensus among international 
organizations that the growing demand for raw materials for agro-energy is an important 
factor. Also, the OECD concluded that between 2005 and 2007 “up to 60% of the 
increase in food prices responded to the use of cereals and vegetable oils for the bio-fuel 
industry.” 

This agro-industrial model also accelerates Climate Change, which in turn increases the 
loss of fertile soil and consequently, leads to famine. It may be affirmed that if this 
model is not curbed, it will lead to a deliberate increase in the number of starving people 
in the world and of conflicts over land tenure, which would be a crime of lese-humanity. 

In the case of Guatemala for example, mega oil palm projects have been implemented 
for the production of agri-diesel, causing an accelerated change in land use, that could 
affect the food sovereignty of rural areas and also lead to the displacement of large 
contingents of the peasant population.6 

Who wins with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil? 

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) -a voluntary certification process 
promoted by large NGOs and industry – is an initiative contrary to peoples’ interests. 
Declarations by actors involved in RSPO such as the Indonesian Palm Producers 
Association (GAPKI), give a clear picture showing that it is a tool for the expansion of 
the palm oil business and not an authentic strategy to contain its environmental and 
social impacts. Many of the RSPO member companies continue to destroy vast 
stretches of rainforest and to violate human rights, such as in the case of Wilmar 
International on the Isle of Bugala (Uganda) and in Indonesia, PT SMART, Agro Group 
and IOI Group in Indonesia, FEDEPALMA in Colombia, or Unilever in Indonesia, 
Malaysia and Côte d’Ivoire. 

The way this RSPO initiative is presented in Colombia, regarding its approach and 
actors involved, shows that the main interest in this process of “palm oil sustainability” 
is purely commercial. There is no authentic intention of curbing social impacts and 
impacts on human rights but rather to silence serious crimes, irregularities and 
paramilitary control related to the oil palm agri-business. 

We reject the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) because: 

-The principles and criteria proposed by RSPO to define sustainability include largescale plantations 

- RSPO is designed to legitimate the continuous expansion of the palm oil industry. 
-Any model that includes the conversion of natural habitats into large-scale 

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monoculture plantations cannot, by definition, be sustainable.
-RSPO is interested in economic growth and opening up markets in the palm oil sector,
but not in social and environmental sustainability.


-RSPO is dominated by the industry and does not genuinely consult affected 
communities. 

-The participation of NGOs in RSPO only legitimates an unacceptable process. Major 
organizations, such as the WWF promote and endorse this process which does not 
address the real problems of the affected populations of the South, but only worsens 
them. 

-RSPO’s scheme enables companies to certify individual plantations, eluding overall 
assessment of their whole production. The “star” plantation enables them to show 
themselves as being “environmentally responsible” although they act in an irresponsible 
social and environmental manner. This has already happened in the past with other 
certification systems for industrial tree plantations, such as FSC’s forest certification 
system. 

-RSPO is yet another attempt at camouflaging and denying the true situation, providing 
“a green-wash” to make a model of production that is intrinsically destructive and 
socially and environmentally unsustainable, appear to be “responsible.” 

Furthermore we denounce that, without paying due attention to all the impacts of 
incalculable dimensions, the European Union and other organizations and institutions 
are attempting to prepare formal sustainability criteria for the production of raw 
material for agrofuels. However, the cultivation of oil palms, like all other industrial 
monoculture plantations, IS NOT and NEVER will be, sustainable. 

Much of the damage caused by the oil palm agro-industry in tropical countries is 
already irreparable. Nevertheless, through this declaration we demand: 

* Total paralysation of further deforestation and conversion of land use to oil palm 
cultivation; no further destruction of a single hectare more of natural ecosystems. 
* The cancellation of trade relations between companies purchasing palm oil and 
suppliers destroying forests and peatlands as they are responsible for or benefit from 
violating Human Rights. 
* Protection of the human rights of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendent people and 
peasant communities affected by large-scale monoculture plantations. 
* Guarantees for the overall reparation of human and environmental damage generated 
by the imposition of large-scale monoculture plantations and by the violation of human 
rights by State forces and private companies. Truth, Justice and Reparation for the 
victims. 
* Resolution of all existing land conflicts linked to monoculture palm plantations. This 
implies immediate restitution of the ancestral lands of Afro-Colombian communities 
and indigenous peoples affected by monoculture plantations and the implementation of 

Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization (ILO). 

* Respect for local communities’ land and territorial rights. 
*Hearing, addressing and resolving legal suits, complaints and other claims launched by 
the affected communities. 

* Preventing agri-business lobby organizations, such as RSPO, from serving as a 
justification for the indiscriminate expansion of oil palm growing, and from 
guaranteeing a high level of agri-business, which only benefits large companies at the 
expense of the future of peoples and the planet. 
* An immediate moratorium on the incentives of the EU and others to agrofuel and 
agro-energy produced by extensive monoculture plantations, including tree plantations, 
and a moratorium on imports. This includes the immediate suspension of all obligatory 
percentages and incentives such as tax exemption and subventions benefitting agrofuel 
from monoculture plantations, including those funded by carbon trading mechanisms, 
international development aid or credits granted by International Funding Agencies such 
as the World Bank. 
We are still in time to radically change our methods of producing, transforming, 
trading and consuming farm produce. To do this, for example we must: 

* Halt industrial food production that is contributing to climate change and to the 
destruction of small rural communities. 
* End privatization of natural resources. 
* Dismantle agri-business companies, financial speculation with raw material and 
economic and trade policies responsible for the food crisis (and emergency). 
* Replace industrialized agriculture by sustainable peasant and family agriculture 
supported by real Agrarian Reform programmes. 
* Promote sustainable energy policies. Consume less energy and produce solar and 
wind energy and biogas locally instead of promoting large-scale agrofuel as is the case 
at present. 
* Implement agricultural and trade policies at local, national and international levels 
supporting sustainable peasant agriculture and consumption of local and ecological 
food. This includes the total abolition of subventions that lead to unfair competition 
through subsidised food. 
If your organization wishes to support this declaration, or for questions or 
comments please send an e-mail containing the name of your organization and 
country to: 

unsustainablepalmoil@gmail.com 


Adhieren a esta declaración: 

1. Acción Ecológica, Ecuador 
2. Acción por la Biodiversidad, Argentina 
3. Afrika-Europa Netwerk, Netherlands 
4. AFOSCI Apoyo al Fortalecimiento de la Sociedad Civil, Paraguay 
5. Agua Sustentable, Bolivia 
6. AITEC, France 
7. Alianza Social Continental | Hemispheric Social Alliance, Americas 
8. Alotau Environment Ltd, Papua New Guinea 
9. Alternative Agriculture Network, Thailand
10.Amis de la Terre (member of FoE International), Belgium
11. Amics de la Terra Eivissa, Spain 
12. AMODE, Mozambique 
13.ANUC-UR Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos -Unidad y 
Reconstrucción, Colombia 

14. Asamblea Coordinadora Patagónica contra el Saqueo y la Contaminación, 
Argentina 
15. Asamblea de Unidad Cantonal de Cotacachi, Ecuador 
16. A SEED Europe, Netherlands 
17. Asociación Amigos de los Parques Nacionales AAPN, Argentina 
18. Asociación ecologista Verdegaia Galicia, Spain 
19. Asociación Ecologistas Plasencia, Spain 
20. Asociación El Puesto Ecológico Tenerife, Spain 
21. Asociación HESED-JUSTICIA, Spain 
22. Asociación Katio, Spain 
23. Asociación de Mujeres de Singuerlín, España 
24.Asociación Nacional de Afectados por los Síndromes de Sensibilidad Química, 
Fatiga Crónica, Fibromialgia y para la Defensa Ambiental (ASQUIFYDE), 
Spain 

25. Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica, Spain 
26. Associació Fundacio Dada Gugu, España 
27. Associaçao para o Desenvolvimento e Democracia, Mozambique 
28. ATTAC, Spain 
29. AVES Association for Wildlife Conservation, France 
30. Base Investigaciones Sociales BASEIS, Paraguay 
31. Basler Appell gegen Gentechnologie, Swizerland 
32. Biofuelwatch, United Kingdom 
33. Bismarck Ramu Group Madang, Papua New Guinea 
34. Bharatiya Krishak Samaj, India 
35. Budongo Conservation Field Station, Uganda 
36. BUNDjugend MV, Germany 
37. Campaña "No te comas el Mundo", Spain 
38. CANE Coalition Against Nuclear Energy, South Africa 
39. CAPOMA Centro de Acciòn Popular Olga Màrquez de Aredez en defensa de los 
Derechos Humanos, Argentina
40.Carbon Trade Watch, Netherlands


41. CEMEP-ADIS, Argentina 
42. Center for Encounter and active Non-Violence, Austria 
43. Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka 

44. Centre for Organisation Research and Education, India 
45. Centro Balducci, Italy 
46. Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas AC, México 
47. Centro Ecologista Renacer, Argentina 
48.Centro tricontinental - CETRI, Belgium 
49. CIFAES-Universidad Rural Paulo Freire, Spain 
50. Club Unesco di Udine, Italy 
51. Colectivo Feminista, Ecuador 
52. Colectivo Sur Cacarica Valencia, Spain 
53. Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, Colombia 
54. Comité Cerezo, Mexico 
55. Comité Monseñor Oscar Romero de Valladolid, Spain 
56. Comité Obispo O. Romero, Chile 
57. Comité Oscar Romero de Madrid, Spain 
58. Comisión Pastoral Paz y Ecologia COPAE Diócesis de San Marcos, Guatemala 
59. Comisión Permanente de Derechos Humanos, Colombia 
60. Comité pour les droits humains Daniel Gillard, Belgium 
61. Comunidad Cristiana de Base de Genova, Italy 
62. Comunidades Cristianas Populares, Spain 
63. Conciencia Solidaria ONG Interprovincial, Argentina 
64. Consejo Comunitario Afrodescendiente de la Cuenca del Río Naya, Colombia 
65. CONTAC Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores nas Indústria da 
Alimentação, Agro-Indústrias, Brasil 
66. Contraloría Ciudadana de Asunción, Paraguay 
67. Cooperativa Futura Societa Cooperativa ONLUS, San Vito al Tagliamento (PN), 
Italy 
68. Coordinadora Ecoloxista d'Asturies, España
69. Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de Agroecología CEA
70. Coordinadora Popular Colombiana en París CPCP, France
71. Corporación Buen Ambiente CORAMBIENTE Bucaramanga, Colombia
72. Corporate Europe Observatory CEO, Netherlands
73. CO2 Accion, Argentina
74. Dritte-Welt-Kreis Panama e.V., Germany
75. Earth Peoples, International
76. Earth Savers Movement, Philippines
77. ECO Yeshemachoch Mahiber ECOYM, Etiopia
78. Ecological Internet, USA
79. Ecological Society of the Philippines, Philippines
80. Ecologistas en Acción, Spain
81. EcoNexus, United Kingdom
82. Economic Justice and Development Organization EJAD, Pakistan
83. Ecoportal.Net, Argentina
84. En Buenas Manos e.V., Germany
85. Entomological Society of Latvia, Latvia
86. Entrepueblos, Spain
87. Environment Protection Association – APROMAC, Brazil
88. Espacio Bristol-Colombia, United Kingdom
89. ETC Group, international
90. FASE - Solidariedad y Educación, Brasil
91.FDCL Centro de Investigación y Documentación Chile -Latinoamérica,

Germany 

92. Federacion Accion Campesina Colombiana ACC, Colombia 
93. Federación de Comités de Solidaridad con Africa Negra, Spain 
94. FERAESP Federação dos Empregados Rurais Assalariados do Estado de São 
Paulo, Brasil 
95. FIAN Internacional 
96. Fisherfolk Movement (KM), Philippines 
97. Fórum de Defesa do Baixo Parnaiba Maranhense - Brasil 
98. Foodfirst Information & Action Nework FIAN, Belgium 
99. Foodfirst Information & Action Nework FIAN, Mexico (mexican section of 
FIAN International) 

100.Foodfirst Information & Action Nework FIAN, Netherlands 

101.France Amérique Latine Niza, France 

102.France Amérique Latine Paris, France 

103.Frente Nacional de Lucha por el Socialismo FNLS, Mexico 

104.Frente Nacional por la Salud de los Pueblos, Ecuador 

105.Freunde der Naturvölker e.V./FdN - fPcN, Germany 

106.FTA Watch Thailand, Thailand 

107.Fundación AGRECOL Andes – Bolivia 

108.Fundacion Hombre Lux Naturaleza HOLUNA, Colombia 

109.Fundación Semillas de Vida A.C., Mexico 

110.Global Indigenous Peoples Movement, USA 

111.Global Forest Coalition 

112.Global Justice Ecology Project, USA 

113.Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Argentina 

114.Grupo de Trabajo Suiza Colombia ASK, Switzerland 

115.Jubileo Sur, Mexico 

116.Hermanas de Nuestra Señora de Sión Managua, Nicaragua 

117.Iberica 2000, Spain 

118.Ibiza Ecologic, Spain 

119.IGLA Informationsgruppe Lateinamerika, Austria 

120.Iniciativa Paraguaya para la Integracion de los Pueblos, Paraguay 

121.Institute for Global Justice, Indonesia 

122.Kein Strom aus Palmöl !, Germany 

123.Korea Alliance of Progressive Movements, South Korea 

124.Labour Rights and Democracy LARIDE, Philippines 

125.Lasojamata, Netherlands 

126.Latinamerican Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations 

127.Maderas del Pueblo - Chiapas, Mexico 

128.Mangrove Action Project MAP, USA 

129.México Nación Multicultural UNAM Oficina Oaxaca, México 

130.Minga, France 

131.Movimiento Ambientalista de Olancho MAO, Honduras 

132.Movimento de Mulheres Camponesas MMC (Vía Campesina), Brasil 

133.Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra MST (Vía Campesina), Brasil 

134.Movimiento Madre Tierra (miembro de FoE), Honduras 

135.Movimiento Mexicano de Afectados por las Presas y en Defensa de los Rios 

MAPDER, México 
136.Movimiento de Resistencia Popular del Sureste (MRPS-FNLS), 
de Chiapas, México 


137.Movimento Rede Afropunk, Brasil 
138.Mujeres Luna Creciente, Ecuador 
139.Muyuqui San Justo Santa Fe, Argentina 
140.National Federation of Dalit Women, India 
141.Neotropical Primate Conservation, United Kingdom 
142.Network for Ecofarming in Africa, Kenya 
143.Network of Alternatives against Impunity and Market Globalisation 
144.New Forest Friends of the Earth, United Kingdom 
145.Nimfea Environmental and Nature Conservation Association, Hungary 
146.NOAH Friends of the Earth, Denmark 
147.Ökumenischer Arbeitskreis Christen & Ökologie, Germany 
148.Osservatorio Informativo Indipendente sulla Americhe, Italy 
149.Pacific-Network, Germany 
150.Palm Oil Action Group, Australia 
151.Pambang Katipunan ng Makabayang Magbubukid (PKMM), Philippines 
152.Partnership for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development Services 

PARRDS, Philippines 
153.Pastoral de la Tierra Nacional de la Conferencia Episcopal, Guatemala 
154.Perkumpulan Elang, Indonesia 
155.PIPEC Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environment Coalition, New Zealand 
156.Plaidoyer pour un Développement Alternatif PAPDA, Haïti 
157.Plataforma de solidaridad con Chiapas, Oaxaca y Guatemala de Madrid, Spain 
158.Plataforma Rural, Spain 
159.Platform of Filipino Migrant Organizations in Europe, Netherlands 
160.Plural Anitzak Ortuella Euskadi, Spain 
161.Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign PPEHRC, USA 
162.Pro Wildlife, Germany 
163.Progresive Alliance of Fishers Pangisda, Philippines 

164. Proyecto Gran Simio GAP/PGS, Spain 
165.PWG Pelindaba Working Group, South Africa 
166.RAP- AL, Ecuador 
167.RAPAL, Uruguay 
168.RBJA Red Brasileña de Justicia Ambiental, Brasil 
169.Red Ambiental Loretana, Perú 
170.Red Colombiana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio y el ALCA -RECALCA, 
Colombia 
171.Red Comunitaria, Cuba 
172.Red Mexicana de Accion frente al Libre Comercio RMALC, Mexico 
173.Red Mexicana de Afectados por la Mineria REMA, Mexico 
174.Red Theomai, Argentina 
175.Regenwald-Institut e.V., Germany 
176.Rel-UITA, Uruguay 
177.Reseaus Defenseurs des DDHH Bamako, Mali 
178.Rete Radié Resch, Italy 
179.Robin Wood, Germany 
180.Salva la Selva/ Rettet den Regenwald, Germany 
181.Save Our Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia 
182.Semillas de Identidad, Campaña por la Defensa de la Biodiversidad y la 

Soberanía Alimentaria, Colombia 
183.Serikat Petani Indonesia SPI Indonesian Peasant Union (Via Campesina), 


Indonesia 

184.Sindicato Trabajadores Rurales de Coraler SITRACOR, Uruguay 

185.Slow Food, Kenya 

186.Sociedad Colombiana de Automovilistas SCA, Colombia 

187.Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos, Brasil 

188.Society for Threatened Peoples, Germany 

189.Soldepaz Pachakuti, Spain 

190.Southern African Faith Communities Environment Institute SAFCEI, South 
Africa 

191.Student Board of Executives, Social and Political Science Faculty University of 
Indonesia, Indonesia 

192.Timberwatch, Southafrica 

193.Transnational Institute, Netherlands 

194.Transnational Migrant Platform, Netherlands 

195.Traper@s de Emaus de Dualez,Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain 

196.Tulele Peisa Inc., Papua New Guinea 

197.Unión de Trabajadores Rurales del Sur del País UTRASURPA, Uruguay 

198.Union paysanne, Canada 

199.Vecin@s del pueblo de Dualez, Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain 

200.WALHI Jambi Friends of the Earth Province Jambi, Indonesia 

201.Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre Pretoria, South Africa 

202.Watch Indonesia, Germany

203.WEED Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie & Entwicklung e.V., Germany 

204.World Rainforest Movement WRM, Uruguay 

205.Yayasan Sahara, Indonesia 

206.Youth for Ecology Liberation, USA 

207.Zona Humanitaria Comunidad Civil de Vida y Paz CIVIPAZ Meta, Colombia 

208.Zona Humanitaria de la Comunidad Vida y Trabajo La Balsita Dabeiba, 
Colombia 

209.Zonas humanitarias y de Biodiversidad de la Comunidad de Autoderteminación 
Vida y Dignidad CAVIDA Cacarica, Colombia 

210.Zonas Humanitarias y Zonas de Biodiversidad, Consejo Comunitario del 
Curvaradó, Colombia 

211.Zonas Humanitarias y Zonas de Biodiversidad, Consejo Comunitario del 
Jiguamiandó, Colombia