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Carbon colonialism: Green Resources’ industrial tree plantations in Uganda leave communities facing “an on-going hunger crisis”

Posted on 22 December 201710 September 2019

In 2014, the Oakland Institute published a report about the Norwegian company Green Resources, and the impact on communities living near the company’s industrial tree plantations in Uganda.

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Finnish Broadcasting Company reports on the impacts of Green Resources’ industrial tree plantations in Uganda

Posted on 15 February 201714 January 2021

Green Resources is a Norwegian company with 41,000 hectares of industrial tree plantations in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. While Green Resources claims to be carrying out “sustainable development”, the reality is anything but sustainable for local communities.

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Guest Post: TAMS – Failed experiments with carbon in Madagascar

Posted on 22 December 20169 February 2018

In 2016, Sara Peña Valderrama completed her PhD in social anthropology, where she studied a forest carbon project run by Conservation International in Madagascar. Her thesis is available on Durham University’s website: Entangling Molecules: an ethnography of a carbon offset project in Madagascar’s eastern rainforest. She submitted this Guest Post about what happened when the project changed…

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Carbon violence and green denial: How Green Resources ignores the impacts of its industrial tree plantations on communities in Uganda

Posted on 27 October 201612 April 2018

In 1996, Uganda’s National Forest Authority awarded a 50 year licence covering an area of land just over 9,000 hectares to a Norwegian company called Green Resources. Twenty years later, local communities are still feeling the impacts of the company’s industrial tree plantations.

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NGOs dissatisfied with Swedish Energy Agency response, once again call on the Agency to cancel carbon credit purchase from Green Resources’ monoculture plantations in Uganda

Posted on 11 May 201612 April 2018

Green Resources is a Norwegian company that claims to be “Africa’s largest forestation company.” The company has established a total of 45,000 hectares of industrial plantations in Africa. It also generates carbon credits from its plantations.

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