Source: In These Times
by Tomas O’Loingsigh
“There’s a good chance your latest delivery arrived in a box produced by the Irish multinational Smurfit Kappa Group. A leading producer of cardboard packaging globally, Smurfit Kappa owns 68,000 hectares of forestry plantations it intensively cultivates for paper production. Almost 99% of that land is in Colombia. The company’s Dublin headquarters told In These Times it is committed to restoring ’a healthy coexistence to the area and the communities,’ but locals say the company’s vast landholdings are endangering both. Campesino activist Andrea Sierra (who asked for a pseudonym in fear of retaliation), from Cajibío, tells In These Times that, because of Smurfit Kappa’s presence, local peasants have lost much of the land needed for growing food.” (05/25/23)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/indigenous-campesino-colombia-resistance-irish-multinational