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Human Displacement By Monocultures

EDM number 1435 in 2007-08, proposed by Rudi Vis on 28/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Africa, Agriculture and environment, Asia, Energy, Environmental protection, Food, Human rights, International development and Nature conservation.

That this House notes with interest the Friends of the Earth report Losing Ground on the many adverse human rights and environmental effects of large-scale palm oil plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia; further notes the widespread reports from the global South of human rights abuses and harm to local environments amid the advance of monocultures associated with the present commodities shock and biofuel drive, including of palm oil elsewhere and of soya, cotton, sugarcane and jatropha; further notes that 11,000 villagers are being displaced in Tanzania by jatropha plantations cultivated for the UK firm Sun Biofuels; urges that British and European decision-makers consult more actively with Southern non-governmental organisations when devising trade and energy policies; and also recognises the need to reduce the UK's ecological footprint in its national choice of energy sources, and the value of individuals doing so within a balanced diet by reducing consumption of animals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rudi Vis28/04/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourProposed
Bob Russell28/04/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley28/04/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Mark Durkan28/04/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Alan Meale29/04/2008MansfieldLabourSeconded
Martin Caton29/04/2008GowerLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer29/04/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock29/04/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil29/04/2008Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
David Drew30/04/2008StroudLabourSigned
John Hemming30/04/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn30/04/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/04/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden30/04/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones30/04/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle30/04/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
John Horam30/04/2008OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Ronnie Campbell30/04/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara01/05/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington01/05/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell06/05/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Michael Jabez Foster07/05/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Nigel Griffiths07/05/2008Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham08/05/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Janet Dean08/05/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Dai Davies08/05/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Kelvin Hopkins09/05/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Katy Clark12/05/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins13/05/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Clive Efford20/05/2008ElthamLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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