#nestle — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/ch/126244/ Nestlé to invest over CHF300 million in Brazil #Article #BeatAgribusiness #business #Health #LatestNews #Nestlé #ProductionTypeDeepLAutotranslation #Work

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125464/ Nestlé gives up vitamins #holistic #Minerals #Navratil #Nestlé #Nestlé #Portfolio #Supplements #Switzerland #vevey #vitamins #VMS #yellow

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125448/ After Eights and Terry’s Chocolate Orange: New flavours for single-flavour brands #can #CloseUp #colman's #Colman'sMustard #condiment #FoodAndDrink #IsolatedObjects #IsolatedOnWhite #IsolatedBackgroundObjects #mustard #Nestlé #NoPeople #ProductShot #reflection #StudioShot #yellow

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125264/ Nestlé’s Nature’s Bounty divestiture highlights gap between premium and legacy brands #Bio #dha #DietarySupplement #drugstore #epa #HealthyLiving #Nestlé #softgel

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125248/ Nestle stock rises on a 393 million USD Brazil push #CH0038863350 #Nestlé #NestléSA

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125214/ Nestlé and i-dac Indonesia strike gold at Mob-Ex Awards 2026 #BestOfShowAgency #BestOfShowBrand #IDacIndonesia #ImagicEsolutions #IndofoodCbpSuksesMakmur #MobExAwards2026 #MobileCommerce #MobileMarketing #Nestlé #PizzaHut #SarimelatiKencana #WppGroup #WppMedia #WppOpenmind #WppTheGoatAgency

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125082/ Nestlé to invest over CHF300 million in Brazil #Article #BeatAgribusiness #business #Health #LatestNews #Nestlé #ProductionTypeDeepLAutotranslation #Work

https://www.europesays.com/ch/125010/ Nestlé to invest over CHF300 million in Brazil #Article #BeatAgribusiness #business #Health #LatestNews #Nestlé #ProductionTypeDeepLAutotranslation #Work

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124984/ Nestle stock reacts to $1 billion supplements sale and Brazil investment #CH0038863350 #Nestlé #NestléSA

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124954/ Nestle to build infant formula plant in Brazil as part of US$393mil investment #analysis #bursa #BursaMalaysia #BursaScreener #bursascreener #klse #KualaLumpur #KualaLumpurStockExchange #Nestlé #research #screener #STOCKEXCHANGE #StockScreener #Technical #TECHNICALANALYSIS

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124896/ Nestlé Sells Mainstream Vitamin Brands to Yellow Wood Partners for US$1 Billion #BeautyB2B #BeautyBusinessNews #BeautyFromWithin #BeautyIndustryNews #BeautyNews #ConsumerHealth #CosmeticsB2BNews #CosmeticsBusinessNews #CosmeticsIndustryNews #CosmeticsNews #GlobalCosmeticsNews #Nature'sBounty #Nestlé #NestléHealthScience #Solgar #Supplements #vitamins #wellness #WellnessM&A #YellowWood #YellowWoodPartners

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124843/ Nestle to build infant formula plant in Brazil as part of US$393mil investment #Brazil #CorporateNews #ExportOpportunities #factory #Health #InfantFormula #investment #MinasGerais #Nestlé #nutrition #supply

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124619/ Nestlé unveils biggest-ever Christmas confectionery range #building #Coffee #company #editorial #EditorialUseOnly #multinational #Nestlé #NestléSA #processing #SheppardAvenueWest #Swiss #tea

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124611/ Are Pai and Nestlé getting their hands on Crosta Mollica pizza? #bottom #buitoni #crumb #crust #indiscretion #Nestlé #pai #pizza #sky

https://www.europesays.com/ch/124593/ How Yumi Ice Cream grew from a local ice cream trucks supplier to Texas’ premier distributor of ice cream and frozen food #Frozen #Issue213 #Nestlé #YumiIceCream

Родом из гнезда: история товарного знака Nestle

История ныне всемирно известной транснациональной корпорации началась в 1866 году, когда фармацевт Генри Нестле разработал продукт для искусственного вскармливания грудных детей. Он получил название Farine Lactee Henry Nestle — «Молочная мука Генри Нестле». Фирма по производству и продаже товара была учреждена уже в 1867 году. Нестле был одним из первых швейцарских производителей, который создал логотип для своего предприятия. За основу был взят герб его собственной семьи. На нем изображена одинокая птица, сидящая в гнезде. Это была отсылка к фамилии Nestle, которая означает «гнездо» на немецком языке. Позже предприниматель адаптировал логотип, добавив трех птенцов, которых кормила мать. Так он хотел показать визуальную связь между его именем и продуктами компании. К логотипу он добавил надпись Nestle. Интересно, что тогда в Швейцарии не было национального законодательства по товарным знакам, поэтому логотип был зарегистрирован в Гонконге (на тот момент территории Британской империи) в 1874 году. Только в 1890 году Нестле смог зарегистрировать его в качестве швейцарской торговой марки. Товарный знак до сих пор является действующим. А в России у него еще статус общеизвестного.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/onlinepatent/articles/1072304/

#nestle #товарный_знак #брендинг #логотип #логотипы #дизайн_логотипов #дизайн_логотипа #история_создания #история_успеха

https://www.europesays.com/ch/107284/ Nestlé’s Q2 organic sales surpasses expectations #AcquaPanna #CocoaCosts #CoffeeCosts #CoreBrands #EuropeanWaterBusiness #JointVenture #KitKat #Maggi #MiddleEastConflict #Nescafé #Nestlé #NestléPureLife #Nestlé #OrganicSalesGrowth #Peranel #PhilippNavratil #PlatinumEquity #PortfolioReshaping #PremiumBeverages #PriceIncreases #ProfitMargin #Profitability #Q2 #Reuters #Rothschild #SPellegrino #SalesVolume #SecondQuarter #SourcePerrier #Waters

https://www.europesays.com/ch/67211/ Assessing Nestlé (SWX:NESN) Valuation After Recent Share Price Softness And Margin Expectations #InvestorAttention #Nestlé #SharePrice #TotalShareholderReturn

https://www.europesays.com/ch/38770/ Nestlé identified the risk. But who is really responsible? #Nestlé #Responsabilidad #Riesgo

»Skandal um abgefülltes Wasser: Durchsuchung des Hauptsitzes von #Nestlé... #Nestlé und Nestlé Waters werden verdächtigt, ihr Rohwasser illegal aufbereitet zu haben, um die Kontamination mit Bakterien und Pestiziden zu verschleiern.« 🧐
https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/pollution/qualite-de-l-eau/pollution-eau-potable/info-franceinfo-scandale-des-eaux-en-bouteille-une-perquisition-en-cours-au-siege-de-nestle_7368838.html
#right2water #Menschenrecht #Wasser #Trinkwasser #BottledLife

#Fraude aux #eaux #minérales : comment l’ #Elysée et #Matignon ont cédé au #lobbying de #Nestlé , en les autorisant à commercialiser leurs #eaux en #bouteilles avec des #filtres #illégaux , malgré les #alertes des #autorités de #santé

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2025/02/04/fraude-aux-eaux-minerales-comment-l-elysee-et-matignon-ont-cede-au-lobbying-de-nestle-malgre-les-alertes-des-autorites-de-sante_6530527_3244.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=android&lmd_source=default

Nestlé a prélevé de l’eau en toute illégalité pendant plus de 20 ans

Mediapart a pu lire les conclusions du rapport d’enquête de l’Office français de la biodiversité, rendu au procureur de la République d’Épinal dans le cadre de l’enquête préliminaire visant le groupe pour l’exploitation de forages sans autorisation.

Extrait :

De 1992 à 2019, Nestlé a prélevé l’eau qu’elle commercialisait sans autorisation. Une situation hors de tout cadre légal, à tel point que sur certaines périodes, aucune donnée n’existe sur le volume d’eau prélevé et il n’y a aucune trace du paiement de la redevance sur l’eau, pourtant obligatoire.

Cette surexploitation des nappes phréatiques a provoqué un assèchement récurrent et « des perturbations des cycles hydrologiques des eaux superficielles ». Certains villages dépendant d’un des sites de forage de l’usine ont déjà connu des ruptures d’approvisionnement. Un comble, alors que Nestlé continuait de puiser l’eau.

Lire l’article 🔒 : https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/230724/nestle-preleve-de-l-eau-en-toute-illegalite-pendant-plus-de-20-ans

#eau #biodiversité #privatisation #Nestle #PatronsVoyous #Vosges

Esperanza pulverizada:
Cómo #Nestlé está llevando a la #ruina a los #caficultores

Descarga en PDF del informe de PUBLIC EYE MAGAZINE nº 48 de junio de 2024 (alemán)

https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Magazin/2406_PublicEye_Magazin_48_DE_96_dpi.pdf

El informe se complementa con vídeos en línea:

https://stories.publiceye.ch/nescafe-mexiko/

#Café

#CapitalismIsADeathCult

#Elcapitalismoesuncultoalamuerte

https://www.wacoca.com/videos/2177909/travel-thirsty/ Travel Thirsty: Indian Street Food – MASALA CHAI TEA LATTE, COFFEE, LASSI India #Americano #bundi #cappuccino #chai #chaiwala #coffee #DunkinDonuts #Espresso #FlatWhite #food #india #IndiaStreetFood #Indian #IndianStreetFood #lassi #latte #masala #NESCAFE #nestle #peets #rajasthan #starbucks #Street #StreetFood #stumptown #tea #Thirsty #TimHortons #travel #TravelThirsty #TravelThirsty #Vlog #Vlogger #yogurt #YouTube #YouTuber

"#Nestlé adds more #sugar to baby food sold in lower- and middle-income countries, while more affluent markets get healthier versions, according to a recent report released by a nonprofit group."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/23/nestle-sugar-baby-food-childhood-obesity/

#LMICs #South

Un rapport confidentiel fait état d'une contamination généralisée des eaux commercialisées par Nestlé et zéro réaction médiatique de l'exécutif: les ministres ne se sentent pas concernés par l'état de leur Perrier rondelle si prisé à Paris? https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/info-franceinfo-hepar-perrier-vittel-contrex-la-qualite-sanitaire-des-eaux-du-groupe-nestle-pas-garantie-selon-une-expertise-remise-au-gouvernement_6465164.html

#Politique #Eaux #Ecologie #Environnement #Scandale #Nestle #Bouteilles

"#Nestlé ist ein Raubtier, ein Wasserjäger." (Maude Barlow, Aktivistin für das Menschenrecht Wasser, Trägerin des Right Livelihood Award / "Alternativer Nobelpreis"). #ausgründen mal wieder der Hinweis auf diesen Dokumentarfilm (2012) zum #Menschenrecht #Wasser.
#BottledLife "deckt die Machenschaften im Milliardengeschäft mit Wasser auf." https://www.bottledlifefilm.com/hauptseite #right2water

Threat of massive drinking #WaterCrisis looms over American regions: ‘There will be parts of the U.S. that run out’

Story by Wes Stenzel, November 27, 2023

"A new study from The New York Times has revealed that substantial, consistent damage is being done to the #groundwater supply in the United States, which has massive negative implications for #agriculture, #DrinkingWater, construction, and more.

"What’s happening?

"In the past four decades, more than half of all American groundwater sites have been substantially depleted, as more water has been taken out than replenished naturally.

"Additionally, 40 percent of all locations have hit an all-time low.

"Pumping out groundwater disrupts layers of different substances below the Earth’s surface, as the ground can settle into the area where the water is taken out and take up space where it would ordinarily replenish.

"The New York Times sees a lack of regulation as one of the biggest issues regarding groundwater use. Additionally, The Times claims there is very little significant research and data tracking on a countrywide scale.

"Why is groundwater use important?

"Groundwater is essential to agriculture, and the depletion of the resource could fundamentally disrupt crop yields in the coming years in states such as Kansas, where the natural groundwater cannot support the agricultural industry anymore, according to The Times. Meanwhile, more arid states like California, Texas, and Utah are seeing widespread infrastructural damage to roads and the ground due to overpumping. Phoenix does not have enough groundwater in certain areas to construct new homes."

http://www.yahoo.com/news/threat-massive-drinking-water-crisis-050000216.html

#WaterIsLife #WaterExtraction #BlueTriton #Nestle #PolandSpring #BigWater

RSPO member SIAT leaves Nigerian farmers without food. Leases their illegally taken land for €1.23 Euros per hectare, per year

https://youtu.be/SnXISnURIBA

#RSPO member #SIAT of #Nigeria 🇳🇬 leaves Nigerian farmers without food 🧺🚫 The company leases their illegally taken land for €1.23 Euros per hectare, per year. In solidarity, please #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🩸🤮🙊⛔️ @palmoildetect #landgrabbing #humanrights https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/03/12/rspo-member-siat-leaves-nigerian-farmers-without-food-sells-their-land-back-to-them/

Land illegally taken from farmers in #Nigeria 🇳🇬 by #RSPO member #SIAT is leased back to the farmers for €1.23 Euros per hectare, per year. In solidarity, please #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🩸🤮🙊⛔️ @palmoildetect #landgrabbing #humanrights https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/03/12/rspo-member-siat-leaves-nigerian-farmers-without-food-sells-their-land-back-to-them/

A 5-month investigation by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke of Sahara Reporters reveals how RSPO member SIAT Nigeria Limited is involved in human rights abuses and land-grabbing on host communities’ lands. Journalists Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke also discovered that palm oil company SIAT who illegally took their land are leasing it for a mere 600 Naira (N600) per hectare annually – the equivalent of €1.23 Euros per year to lease it.

River pollution by pesticides and restriction by the company to land, where locals can grow food has meant that their food and water supply is contaminated – starvation is now an urgent problem.  

All of this occurs under the guise of “sustainable” palm oil pushed by the RSPO to consumers. SIAT’s palm oil is used in consumer products by PZ Cussons (source), Nestle (source) and Danone (source). This is wh you should #Boycottpalmoil

Story via Sahara Reporters. Additional info: Chain Reaction Research

This article is written by Investigative Journalists Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke for Sahara Reporters and originally published March 3, 2023 as ‘SIAT Nigeria Land Grabbing, Pollution, Causing Hardship In Host Communities‘. Read original story.

In October 2019, Emmanuel Emeka, a fisherman in Mgbu-Anyim village had gone to fish at the mini- Onua, mini-Igwe and mini-Igbu riversin  Elele Alimini of Rivers State, only to see dead fishes floating on the surface of the river. SIAT Nigeria Limited, a Belgian company, has polluted the river with its fertilisers and chemicals used for weed and pest control, he alleged.

Emeka claimed he stopped fishing in the river because, after spending hours exploring it, he would always come up empty-handed. “While SIAT controls pests, they destroy our own,” he added.

To provide for himself, his wife, and their sole child, who is now 5 years old, he mostly relies on his daily catch from the river. However, because of the pollution created by SIAT, he is currently jobless and looking for work. “I sell some (fish) and eat some,” he says, recalling the good times before SIAT’s pollution, which he discovered began around 2017.

The majority of inhabitants in Elele Alimini primarily drank water from the mini-Igwe and mini-Igbu rivers. While farmers soak and wash their cassava in the river, fishermen catch fish from the river for consumption and to make profit. The reporters’ visit to the community proved that some of the company’s palm plantation is located directly behind the rivers, close by.

Emeka said: “Between 2012 to 2013 when the company(SIAT) came, everything was okay. We were still fishing in the river. But from 2017 to 2020, everywhere was polluted.

The decline in fish populations in the river prompted some elderly people in the community to look into and identify the source. According to Emeka, they discovered that the chemical SIAT sprayed on their palm trees and the ground to control weeds, pests, and increase yields is the main culprit.

Sa SIAT nv, a Belgian agro-industrial business that specialises in the production of palm oil, is the sole owner of SIAT Nigeria Ltd. (SNL). A total of 16,000 hectares of land were gathered in the communities of Elele and Ubima for oil palm plantations when the business acquired Risonpalm in 2011 from the Rivers State Government. According to the company’s profile on its website, 5,718 hectares were harvested from Elele and 9,513 hectares were harvested from Ubima in Rivers State. Since its establishment in Nigeria and other African nations, the corporation has made several billions of euros while occupying about 66,331 ha for the production of palm oil and rubber. For instance, SIAT group reported a revenue of 173 million euros in 2021. Unfortunately, despite acquiring the land of host communities and harming the environment in Africa, the firm has not adhered to its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitments.

Fast facts about African Palm Oil

• Only five international companies dominate industrial oil palm production in Africa: Socfin, Wilmar, Olam, Siat, and Straight KKM (formerly Feronia). They control an estimated 67% of the industrial oil palm planted area with foreign investment and may drive continuous expansion.
• Risks are most pronounced in Nigeria, where expansion may come at the cost of state natural forest reserves and critical habitat for endangered primates like chimpanzees, gorillas and many other rare species.
• Socfin and Wilmar, the two largest African operators, are linked to numerous social and environmental impacts on their African concessions. These impacts vary from land-grabbing to loss of social and environmental high conservation values to violence and intimidation.
• Palm oil buyers and FMCGs aew linked to escalated cases of land-grabbing and violence against local communities include Wilmar, Olam, Danone, PZ Cussons, FrieslandCampina, Nestlé, and Kellogg’s.
• Financiers and companies face reputation and regulation risk. FMCGs and financiers with NDPE violations linked to African palm oil supply face reputation risk. Moreover, they will need to comply with upcoming EU supply chain regulation.

Information via Chain Reaction Research

Farm owners are now farmland renters

Sampson Eleonu, 81, was only in primary school when Rivers State of Nigeria Palm (Risonpalm), a state-owned enterprise that later became SIAT, arrived to ask his father, Miniekom, an uneducated man, to surrender his family’s land in Elele Alimini under the pretence that he (Miniekom) would profit. He had no idea that this was the start of the misery endured by the residents of Mgbu-Anyim in Elele Alimini in Emohua Local Government Area, Rivers State.

Eleonu said: “They (Risonpalm) came in 1959 and collected all our farmland with false promises, until now, we didn’t see anything.

“My father gave a letter to them (Risonpalm) telling them what to do and they signed and agreed but none was done,” he added, stating that the discussion took place before the Nigerian civil war, and documents regarding the agreement could no longer be found.  Eleonu is now the leader of the Mgbu-Anyim family,one of SIAT host communities.

SIAT claimed on its website that it acquired 5,718 hectares of land from Elele, but Elenwo and other youth leaders in the Mgbo-Ivu family claimed that the company actually took over 6,000 hectares, which is now causing a food shortage and forcing some traders to struggle for a long time to get food to sell and eat. Mgbo-Anyim is made up of three families, and their lands were also collected, but “our own family (Mgbo-Ivu) lands is the highest that was taken. All was collected, nothing is remaining,” said Elenwo Joseph, former community youth leader, who interrupted during the interview with Elenwo.

“We are regretting now. It is my father that thought the company will do something(help) but nothing,” Eleonu interruptedJoseph Elenwo who was also complaining about the SIAT land grab.

The company took more than what was apportion to them and today, “we are buying land from neighbouring communities to farm,” Eleonu, lamented while sitting at the back of his house in Elele Alimini.

Local leaders protested in 2020 and 2021 over the company’s land grab and disregard for the host communities after SIAT asked for their bank account information and failed to give them the money they had verbally promised. Joseph said: “During the protest, we requested they sign a fresh agreement because we don’t have any agreement with SIAT. Even the rent they claim they have paid, we don’t have any document to support that claim.

“I asked my father, he said they gave them money but they didn’t sign anything. They asked them to thumb print on a paper and a copy was not given to them. They (my fathers) can’t even read.”

He claimed that SIAT attempted to bribe each executive member of the 22-member SIAT Landlord Association (made up of youth and parent body) with N5 million in order to end their agitation, but “we refused.” After numerous struggles, the corporation and the community finally came to an agreement that is now documented, Elenwo said.

Despite the fact that the MOU cited by the reporters did not specify the annual sum to be paid by SIAT to land owners on a per-hectare basis outside of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility, which includes employment and scholarships, several host communities in Ubima and Elele claimed that the company paid an annual rent of N600 per hectare, which sparked further agitation between the community and SIAT. The N600, along with the accumulated rent that SIAT owes to other families like the Mgbo-Ivu, has not yet been paid. The amount paid by SIAT for per hectare of land is three times less than what community residents  typically pay to neighbouring villages to buy farmlands per farming season..

Joseph word: “The company is paying N600 ($1) per hectare of land, annually. “This is what was negotiated in 1959 and they haven’t been paying for it.”

“They told us that since there is no document for such payment, we should accept the N600 per hectare. We are yet to receive the money from them.’

Like the Elele community, Ubima—-another host community of SIAT faced the same issue of neglect, land grabbing and pollution that has greatly affected farmers. According to Okechuwku Amadi, youth president of  SIAT Ubima estate landlord association, it took a decade to pay their land fees after resuming activities on their farmlands.

Amadi said: “After the meeting, they agreed to pay 5 years rent, only for us to receive an alert of N600($1)for annual payment  per hectare of land for 5 years.

According to Amadi, SIAT transferred the land fee into various community bank accounts and “my community was paid two hundred and ninety seven thousand naira(N297,000).”

“This caused a lot of arguments and issues because we never agreed with them(SIAT) to pay N600 as annual rent per hectare.”

He also accused the  company of using their trucks to destroy the road leading to their farmland, consequently, making it difficult for Ubima farmers to access their farm.

Many locals in Elele and Ubima said that despite damaging the source of drinking water, SIAT has failed to uphold its CSR commitments despite promising to provide water, electricity, scholarships, and road building in its memorandum of understanding with host communities. Amadi emphasised that the N100,000 per student in each host community that the company pledged to provide for each session has not been distributed consistently. “They started around 2014 but since then, this is the second batch.”

He added, “The Omademe market in Ikwere is unfinished. Two communities  from Etche were electrified, but the power only lasted for two months and there was no maintenance for two years.

Styvn Obodoekwe, programme director for the Center for Environmental, Human Rights, and Development criticised the company’s attitude towards the annual payment of N600 ($1) per hectare, calling it “an act of wickedness” in a state where land is expensive.

“Who does that in this part of the world? Steve asked? “It is too bad! Possibly between 30 and 50 years ago, when land was less expensive, and perhaps at that time they (the community) agreed under that arrangement. At that time, a plot of land was available for lease for N5,000.

Obodoekwe criticised the government for improperly using the Land Use Act to seize peoples’ land by force, despite the fact that the Act states that the government is allowed to take any portion of land for the “public interest” and not to seize the land and give it to a private company to profit from. He calls for the amendment of the Land Use Act.

The Nigerian Land Use Act, gives the government the opportunity to exploit people and the process of acquiring the land is lopsided, said human right lawyer, Courage Nsirimovu. According to him, the government uses the Act to favour companies that they (government) have a good relationship with to acquire people’s lands  under the disguise of the Act.

Nsirimovu said: “The foundation of the land use Act is terribly exploitative that is built against the people,” noting that the Act was based on the  federal government appropriating all the crude oil and petroleum products in Nigeria to itself and for the government  to have access to the petroleum products; the government has to get the land.

“In Nigeria, land is now owned by the government. You can wake up one day and the government will tell you to pack from your house  because they want to acquire the land  so the government can acquire any land,’’ he added.

More grievances

Since SIAT acquired the asset from the State government more than ten years ago, the suffering of the populace has gotten worse as a result of the company’s decision to grow their palm plantation at the expense of not only grabbing community land but also contaminating a river that provides drinking water to locals. In contrast to the pH range of 6.5 to 8.5 that the WHO recommends for drinking water, a sample of water collected from a community stream used by residents and sent to a laboratory for testing had a pH of 5.80.

Grace Amadi, a widow, relies on the crops from her farmland to provide for her seven children. When SIAT took all of their acreage and left them with nothing, her husband was still alive. However, as they both travelled to purchase farm goods from nearby settlements, she and her husband shared the struggle for survival. Her pain grew worse after her husband passed away in 2012.

When SIAT took Amadi’s land, neither she nor her husband received any notice from the company. She claims that they learned the terrible information after going to their farmland to  farm but learnt the land is now owned by SIAT. She folded her hand, still seeming surprised. “I joined other people to protest at the company’s office in Ubima, crying for days but nothing was done,” she lamented.

Amadi said: “Before SIAT took my farmland, I had plenty of food to eat. I farm yam, cassava but now, I have nothing to eat again.” She recalls that the company took their ten hectares of land.

Amadi now travels to the neighbouring state—Bayelsa, to buy farm produce such as cassava to process and make the local food called “garri”. She spent N4,000 for transportation, which she said isn’t a fixed price and it depends on the quantity of goods bought.

She said:  “If I don’t go to Bayelsa to buy cassava, I won’t eat,” she narrated in her local language. She travelled to Bayelsa twice weekly to buy a few things her money could afford.

“I spent N1,000 to travel to Bayelsa, and paid N3,000 while returning with the cassava. I borrowed all the money used for travelling.” According to her, she spent N3,000 to buy a cassava that is in a 50kg  cement bag.  “Before, it was sold for N2,000 but now I bought it N3,000,” she said while waiting for the labourer hired to bring the cassava.

SIAT is known for its notorious activities and lackadaisical attitude towards its host communities. The company cut down its unwanted trees and threw them into rivers leading to the farmlands,  Emeka accuse this company, lamenting that  “we can’t even access our farms, and when they cut down their palm trees, they use it to cover the river where we used to pass to get access to the river, We can’t even get fish again,” he stresses.

Since SIAT grabbed their farmland, according to Justina Welegbe, a farmer from the Welegba family, they have ceased farming and the firm has not given them any compensation. She plants yams, cassava, cocoyams, corn, and melons, and she sells these crops to buy food—like rice—that their land is unable to produce.

“Buyers come from neighbouring villages and I take them to my farm to show them the cassava and they buy it in “ridge” as we call it.  I use the money to pay my children fees. “But now, if we don’t go to buy a farm from neighbouring communities like Rumuekpe and others that are not affected by SIAT, we will not eat”

Justina Welegbe, farmer.

She said that the loan she obtained from the private community lenders, known as “meeting Aleto,” made the entire acquisition of the farmlands possible.

“Before, we bought a ridge of farmland for N500 and we buy 20 ridge but now it’s sold for N2,500 to plant my crops, and we buy only 5 ridge,” she lamented stating that she travelled on motorbike through the highway to a Mbiama, a neighbouring community market to buy cassava for processing,” she lamented.

According to her, she borrowed fifty thousand naira this week and will be paying an interest of thirty thousand naira latest by the end of December before she would be qualified to take another loan in 2023.

A canal dug by SIAT prevents local farmers from accessing water for their own food

One of the company’s well-known practices is building a canal around their palm plantation, preventing farmers from using the local stream to access their farms. The Community members used the river to access farms before SIAT came into existence.

The river is the quickest way to get to the river, but according to Welegbe, “SIAT use Mopol (police officers) to chase farmers who use it to access their farms. We have work, we don’t have a farm. Before we will use leg (walk) it would take between five to six hours to walk to get to the farm.

“The well water we dug in our compound is not good for drinking, so we have to buy a bag of pure water for N150 against the previous amount of N100. I buy 10 bags weekly (N1,500).”

Justina Welegbe, farmer.

She pointed out that the company had polluted the mini-Onua, mini-Igwe, and mini-Igbu rivers, from which the community’s members get their water, leading to a shortage of water. According to her, she now purchases a bag of sachet water, also known as ‘pure water’.

Due to the constant complaint by all the residents in Elele the reporters spoke with who pointed to SIAT as the polluter of the community stream—-the only source of drinking water,  and the reason for depletion of fish in their river, compelled the reporters to take two samples of water to ascertain the component in the river. Two water samples were taken, one from the community stream (which is described PB on the test result), and the other was PB, the area where SIAT dug their canal to restrict residents from accessing their farmlands.The reporters took the decision to take both sample because residents said both water at some point meets especially when the rivers flows or during the high tide. However, both water samples show the pH is below the WHO recommended standard of 6.5-8.5pH.

Test results

Analysing the test result, Kingsley Nwogbidi, chairman of the Nigerian Environmental Society said that the pH is very acidic and “it’s not good for either drinking or any use.” He said that because the levels of chloride ions (CL), nitrate nitrogen (NO3), and sulphate sulphur (SO4) are so high, they can negatively impact humans, animals, and marine life.

“The quality of the water is not suitable for drinking or any use,” Nwogbidi, added.

He further noted that if the fertiliser used on the farmland are washed into the community rivers as claimed by community members, “there will be so much pathogenic compound which is not good for aquatic life,’’ urging the community to reach out to the environmental society for proper professional advice. Research has shown that fish cannot survive in water below pH 4 .

The Missouri department of natural resources says Chloride (CL) can get into the environment through fertiliser use, livestock waste, dust suppressants, industries and other inputs and low and high levels can be toxic to fish, and  capable of killing trees and plants.

According to the Glenn Research Center, turbidity is a condition caused by suspended solids in the water, such as silt, clay, and industrial wastes. Research has shown that “fish in turbid water lose weight, and that this weight loss increases with nephelometric turbidity units, proving that long-term turbidity exposure is harmful to growth productivity.”

The test result from Elele contains 7.0 TDS, although the normal range for Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) is 0 to 5. According to experts, one of the common reasons for excessive TDS, which can be harmful to the ecosystem, is agricultural/pesticide runoff. Studies have shown that too much TDS in a body of water is hazardous to aquatic creatures like fish, amphibians, and macro-invertebrates.

According to various research, the optimum level of Dissolved Oxygen (DO) is above 6.5-8 mg/L and between 80 and 120 percent; however, the laboratory results show that river water (PB) has a DO level of 4.0. According to Wales Natural Resources, “fish and other animals may suffocate and die if oxygen levels in water drop quickly or are too low.

SIAT worker confirms pollution and meagre pay

An employee of SIAT, who asked to remain anonymous to protect themselves from further retaliation from the company, told the reporters that the company utilises chemical fertiliser to maintain the palm plantation, which aids in the growth of the palm fruits and protects them from pests.

Elenwo the executive youth member, accused the company of failing to hire the few indigenous people to work for SIAT, and their employees, including graduates, are paid meagerly despite putting in long hours. A SIAT employee who wished to remain anonymous supported Joseph’s accusations.

Our source explained that professional slashers are paid N2,300 per day while the chemical department are paid N2,500 daily, and harvesters are paid based on their work, N30 per bunch that is harvested.

Our source said:  “The money is paid monthly. Each day, the company takes records on our work and pays at the end of the month.

“My challenge is that the salary is too poor because of the stress, compared to the increase of food prices in Nigeria. Daily payment is N2,500 but I spent up to N3,000 daily as a family person with kids,” our source lamented.

NESREA, a government agency, whose responsibilities include protection and development of the environment, biodiversity conservation, enforcement and ensuring companies comply with environmental laws denied knowledge of environmental pollution in the communities. Zonal Director, Nosa Aigbedion demanded the community to write a formal letter to the agency.

Aigbedion said: “We receive a lot of spurious and unconfirmed claims of pollution frequently only to see that even the complainant sometimes is not even a member of the community. Following that, we sometimes require to get full details of the complaint itself and the complainant.

“Tell the community that if their claims are genuine, they should formally forward a letter to us stating their observations,’’ he said in a WhatsApp message.

All efforts made to reach the company for comment were abortive. Neither did the Public Relations Manager, Lucky Ezihuo respond to our Whatsapp message despite reading it nor was the email sent to the company responded.

Video documentary here

This investigation was supported by Journalismfund.eu.

Story by Investigative Journalists Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke for Sahara Reporters and originally published March 3, 2023 as ‘SIAT Nigeria Land Grabbing, Pollution, Causing Hardship In Host Communities‘. Read original story.

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Will palm oil watchdog RSPO rid itself of deforestation or continue to pretend its products are sustainable? – EIA

Palm oil produced through the destruction of forestland is still being sold around the world with the blessing of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Media release: Environmental Investigation Agency, published 30th November, 2022.

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Media release via Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Published November 30, 2022. Read the original.

The watchdog’s routine practices mean that palm oil bearing its stamp of approval to assure consumers it is sustainably produced cannot be considered deforestation-free, as a new EU law will require.

On November 30, 2022 EIA and along with 99 other organisations issued a joint statement calling time on the RSPO and its habitual greenwashing – the act of giving the public or investors misleading or false information about the environmental impacts of a company’s products and activities.

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The RSPO – the world’s leading voluntary certification scheme for supposedly sustainable palm oil – is holding its annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur this week and it is anticipated there will a significant focus on the upcoming EU deforestation regulation.

The EU is in the process of bringing in a new law that will mean palm oil and other commodities placed on the EU market must be deforestation-free and legal.

Europe is the biggest market for RSPO-certified palm oil, with 93 per cent of imports bearing the organisation’s stamp of approval, so what happens in the EU is of significance to the RSPO and its future.

The RSPO is currently revising its standards, called its Principles and Criteria (P&C), a process it undertakes every five years. In its last P&C revision in 2018, the RSPO adopted a new ‘no deforestation’ standard.

However, this standard falls far short of ensuring supply chains do not result in forest clearance, as the new EU regulation will require.

Key problems with the RSPO’s current ‘no deforestation’ standard

The certified destruction of forests

The RSPO currently allows companies which clear forests to become certified. Companies that do so must simply “compensate” for the loss – either by conserving an equivalent or larger area elsewhere or paying to do so.

This so-called compensation cannot replace the forests that were lost; the animals and plants that lived in that forest are gone, as are the people who might have depended on that forest for their homes and livelihoods.

There was much controversy recently when the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) – the main voluntary certification scheme for timber – changed its cut-off date rules to allow logging companies that have cleared forests after 1994, but not before 2020, to be certified, when they were not allowed to before.

Yet it seems to have gone unnoticed that the RSPO has always allowed this, including for forests cleared beyond 2020. While the RSPO does not allow deforestation after November 2018 on paper, if a company “mistakenly” clears forests or joins the RSPO at a later date, it can simply “compensate” for any forest lost instead.

One of the worst examples of this is PT Bio Inti Agrindo, a palm oil company in Papua, Indonesia, which was RSPO-certified in September 2021. Prior to joining the RSPO, it had been strongly criticised for years for clearing more than 20,000 hectares of pristine rainforest.

Shockingly, the compensation decided on by the RSPO is mainly for the company to support existing neighbouring protected forests, which hardly compensates for the rampant deforestation the company caused.

Image: Forests are still being bulldozed to make way for agricultural land for palm oil and beef production. Richard Whitcombe/Shutterstock

The new EU deforestation will require companies supplying the EU market to have not cleared forests after a specific cut-off date – proposed to be 31 December 2020 by the European Commission.

Given the RSPO currently allows companies which have cleared forests to continue to be certified, meeting RSPO requirements will not guarantee meeting the upcoming EU rules.

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Mixing of uncertified palm oil from deforestation

Another big problem with the RSPO is that it allows uncertified palm oil that comes from deforestation to be mixed with certified palm oil.

This is known as the Mass Balance model and the practice means that RSPO supply chains are tainted and allows companies sourcing from concessions that are responsible for deforestation to promote themselves as “sustainable” or RSPO-certified. This includes RSPO-certified mills being allowed to source uncertified palm oil produced from deforestation.

Last year, companies which are the members of the RSPO adopted a resolution calling for the organisation to strengthen and revise the Mass Balance system in recognition of the problems it is causing the RSPO’s credibility.

Given that the new EU deforestation regulation will require all sources of palm oil in the supply chain to be deforestation-free, RSPO certification cannot guarantee this either, given its wide use of the Mass Balance model.

“It remains to be seen whether the RSPO will act for a change and address the deforestation and other problems in its system or continue to paper over the cracks and pretend its palm oil is sustainable.”

~ EIA Forests Campaigner Siobhan Pearce

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However, given the US ban and significant press coverage of human rights abuse on Sime Darby palm plantations, these imports demonstrate a willful disregard for the protection of human life.

The new EU deforestation regulation and the revision of the P&C is a critical time for the RSPO. It has, and continues to face, a multitude of problems that to date it has been slow to act on.

These range from poor assurance that its standards are actually adhered to, as we have exposed, and failing to uphold complaints to its members being mired in accusations of forced labour.

Given the RSPO’s track record of inadequately dealing with serious issues in its system, there is significant doubt it will do so now.

EIA Forests Campaigner Siobhan Pearce said: “It remains to be seen whether the RSPO will act for a change and address the deforestation and other problems in its system or continue to paper over the cracks and pretend its palm oil is sustainable.”

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