Congolese farmers barred from own land for French oil giant's tree planting project
Farmers living in the Republic of the Congo say that they have been barred from accessing their land so that the French oil giant Total Energies and the Congolese government can use it for a high-profile carbon offsetting project to plant 40 million trees in the next decade.
"In the fields, the white man has bought the lands, and we can no longer work our fields. And the people who have sold our land now forbid us to go there.""The crops that we had planted inside, in the middle of the fields, not harvested to date, they refuse to allow our tractors to come and do the work.It's left some worried about feeding their children.
"We told her that since the dawn of time, we never sold our land, even our ancestors did not do it. She replied that it is the state that has recovered these lands." That land was then quickly subleased via a French forestry consultancy called Foret Resources Management to Total Energies, with reassurances from the government that anyone else trying to use it would be evicted.
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