World Rainforest Movement
Violence, appropriation and resistance: Eastern and southern Africa
Southern African women organising against the violence of extractivism
Large Hydropower Dams Are Not the Answer: Time to Rethink Africa’s Energy Infrastructure
Implications of Monoculture Tree Plantations in Mozambique: The Case of Portucel Mozambique
The Farce of “Smart Forestry”. The Cases of Green Resources in Mozambique and Suzano in Brazil
ProSavana Plan in Mozambique is out and threatening peasants’ land
Mozambique: More denunciations against Chikweti, a company financed by a Nordic “solidarity” fund
Dutch pension fund denounced for investing in monoculture tree plantations in Mozambique
Mozambique: Video and Publication on the expansion of tree plantations
Mozambique: Pine and eucalyptus companies are advancing on peasant land in the north of the country
Chikweti plantations in Mozambique: Will the FSC continue certifying the uncertifiable?
Taarifa hii ya pamoja kati ya Timberwatch Coalition na World Rainforest Movement inalenga katika mambo mbalimbali ya ndani na nje yanayojulisha kuhusu hali ya mabadiliko ya mashamba makubwa ya miti kwa ajili ya viwanda katika nchi 11 za...
read more New briefing: “Industrial Tree Plantations Invading Eastern and Southern Africa” In the context of emerging global trends in respect of escalating climate change, growing economic disparity, and increasing land degradation,...
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REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...
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Original version by Ricardo Carrere – updated by the WRM in 2013. Oil palm is a traditional native crop for West and Central African communities, who are used to either plant them on their lands or to collect fruits, leaves or sap...
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After many years of supporting local struggles and disseminating information from different countries on tree monocultures and its impacts, WRM presents a new report to all those involved in these struggle (1). No better time than the...
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A field report, by Winfridus Overbeek. This publication is the result of a visit to Mozambique in November 2009 by two activists involved in the struggle against tree monocultures in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. This visit was...
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Timber plantations in southern Africa are concentrated in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland, but they are also expanding in Mozambique. There are smaller areas in Angola, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. In South Africa, the largest areas...
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The NO REDD in Africa Network gathered here in Maputo Mozambique, on 26 August 2013 during the occasion of an international workshop on REDD with participants from Mozambique, other African countries, North America and South America...
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On September 30, a petition was delivered with 12,323 signatures from several national and international organisations, as well as from individuals, in solidarity with and support to the communities in Mozambique that struggle against the...
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The report “Portucel – the Process of acquiring access to land and the rights of local communities” was published by Justiça Ambiental/Friends of the Earth Mozambique in 2016, in partnership with the World Rainforest Movement...
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The report “The advance of Forest Plantations on the Farmers Territories in the Nacala corridor: the case of Green Resources Mozambique” was launched in 2016 by the Mozambican organisations Livaningo, UNAC (National Peasants Union)...
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We have produced an interactive map that sumarizes some of the information gathered in the publication “Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios“. The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil...
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Based on a demand of our friends from Geasphere from Southern Africa, we are urging for an end to the financing of the establishment of eucalyptus and pine plantations in Mozambique which are causing negative impacts, especially land...
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Industrial oil palm plantations are rapidly expanding, not only in Liberia. In many African countries expansion projects are happening and plans are announced. Everywhere they go, the companies promise jobs and development. Produced by the...
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Only available in Portuguese Produzido pelo Movimento Mundial pelas Florestas Tropicais Realizado por Flavio Pazos Voz: Manuela Capurro Música: Ohawha, de Zena Bacar Com base em uma viagem de intercâmbio a Moçambique de dois...
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