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16 Mar 2015

Author:
Chloe Christman, Oxfam America

Oxfam commentary: "Is Coca-Cola getting serious about its zero tolerance for global land grabs?"

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Oxfam and others will be conducting in-depth analyses of Coca-Cola’s impact assessments in the coming months. But a quick look reveals that they do not tell the full story of sugar in Guatemala and Colombia – the story that Oxfam has come to understand through our partners on the ground. Coca-Cola’s sugar sourcing affects communities and poses risks to their land rights in ways that the company has yet to identify.Still, Oxfam welcomes Coca-Cola’s willingness to begin ‘walking the walk’ on land rights. It’s not an easy path, and we want to encourage the company to stick with it and make course corrections when needed...Oxfam is encouraged that Coca-Cola views these first assessments as “living documents” which will “evolve” as the company “[receives] further stakeholder comments on the improvements in the human rights due diligence process and on the substance of these due diligence reports.”

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