Patrick Jones, Herakles Farms.

• Author: Mittal, Anuradha
• Position: Brief article

Patrick Jones is the CEO of Herakles Farms, a company that has been developing a palm oil plantation in Cameroon. Herakles has employed deceptive practices in Cameroon since 2009, when it first proposed a controversial ninety-nine-year land lease to convert 73,000 hectares of forested land to an oil palm plantation under the guise of sustainable development. Leaked company documents revealed Herakles's blatant deception of investors, local communities, and the Cameroonian government on the nature of its project. From the start, Herakles failed to obtain legal permits for its project and lied to the local indigenous communities about the realities of the plantation. Destruction of the...