Papua New Guinea: Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Case - 62 | Received: December 08, 2009 | Request: 09/10

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Request not Registered

Requesters

Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR), a local NGO, acting as a representative of the Ahoral Kakandetta Pressure Group, affected customary land owners from the Oro Province and affected smallholders within the three Project areas.

Case Description

The Project: The main objective of the project is to increase, in a sustainable manner, the level of involvement of targeted communities in their local development through increasing oil palm revenue and local participation. The Request: The Requesters claim that the Project "violates" several World Bank policies and will: (a) limit their economic opportunities and pressure them to produce oil palm even though they believe oil palm farming will not raise their standard of living, (b) cause water pollution, (c) cause forest degradation, (d) be unsustainable and ineffective, and (e) cause additional econoimc hardship by requiring growers to pay for road maintenance fees.

Policies and Procedures raised in Request:

- OP 1.00 - Poverty Reduction

- OP 4.01 - Environmental Assessment

- BP 4.01 - Environmental Assessment

- OP 4.10 - Indigenous Peoples

- BP 4.10 - Indigenous Peoples

- OP 4.36 - Forests

- BP 4.36 - Forests

- OP 4.04 - Natural Habitats

- BP 4.04 - Natural Habitats

- OP 10.00 - Investment Lending

- BP 10.00 - Investment Lending