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Uncertain Futures.
The impacts of
Sime Darby on communities in Liberia
By Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor - WRM, September 2012 |
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An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South:
conflicts, trends, and resistance struggles.
Available in English, Portuguese and Spanish
This publications can also be downloaded from EJOLT's website |
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Democratic Republic of Congo.
Conservation International REDD pilot project:
a different kind of Disney production
By Belmond Tchoumba -
November 2011
Also avaliable in French and Spanish |
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Oil palm in Africa:
Past, present and future scenarios
The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil palm in Africa, followed by specific information on the 23 countries analyzed under this research. Also available in French
By Ricardo Carrere - December 2010 |
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The Expansion of Tree Monocultures in Mozambique. Impacts on local peasants communities in the Province of Niassa
By Winfridus
Overbeek. World Rainforest Movement., May 2010 Also
available in Portuguese |
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Plantations,
poverty and power:
Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry
in the South
By Chris Lang - December 2008 |
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Um
alerta sobre o Fomento Florestal: experiências...e alternativas
By Winfridus Overbeek. Movimento dos Pequenos
Agricultores (MPA) do estado do Espírito Santo, with
the support of the WRM - January 2009 |
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Résistances
contre deux géants industriels en forêt tropicale
Populations locales versus plantations commerciales d’hévéas
et de palmiers à huile dans le Sud-Cameroun
By Julien-François Gerber - December
2008 |
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Women,
Communities and Plantations in Ecuador
Testimonials on a socially and environmentally
destructive forestry model
By Ivonne Ramos and Nathalia Bonilla - October 2008. Also
available in Spanish |
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Women
and Eucalyptus Stories of Life and Resistance
Impacts of Eucalyptus Monocultures on Indigenous
and Afrobrazilian Women in the State of Espírito Santo.
Brasil - January 2008. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish |
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Swaziland:
The myth of sustainable timber plantations
By Wally Menne and Ricardo Carrere - March
2007 |
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“A
funny place to store carbon”: UWA-FACE Foundation’s
tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
By Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola - December
2006 |
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Social
conflict and environmental disaster: A report on Asia Pulp and
Paper’s operations in Sumatra, Indonesia
By Rivani Noor and Rully Syumanda -
August 2006 |
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Oil
Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel - Colonization Lives On
Selection
of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of
the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the impacts of the
oil palm plantations in the forestss. September 2006. Also
available in Spanish |
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Monoculture
tree plantations in Ecuador
By Patricia Granda
Also
available in Spanish - August 2006 |
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A
Study of the Social and Economic Impacts of Industrial Tree
Plantations in the KwaZulu - Natal Province of South Africa
By John Blessing Karumbidza - December
2005 |
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Creating
Poverty in Laos: The Asian Development Bank and Industrial Tree
Plantations.
A
World Rainforest Movement briefing paper By Chris Lang and Bruce
Shoemaker. April 2006 |
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Greenwash:
Critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures
in Uruguay
by Ricardo Carrere. The aim of
this report is to provide documented information and analysis
to all those who are currently struggling against large-scale
monoculture tree plantations and must face the additional problem
posed by the fact that these same plantations are being certified
by the FSC. - March 2006 - Also
available in Spanish |
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The
death of the Forest: A Report on Wuzhishan's and Green Rich's
Plantation activities in Cambodia
Proponents of industrial tree plantations argue
that the plantations are “reforestation”, increasing
the area of forest, providing jobs for local people, or reducing
pressure on natural forests. This
report examines these companies’ operations in Cambodia,
the impacts observed to date on the local populations and the
environment, and the associated human rights violations.
March 2006 |
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The
Economic and Social Context of Monoculture Tree Plantations
in Chile: the Case of the Commune of Lumaco, Araucania region
By means of testimonials, documents and figures,
the present report sets out the problems faced by that commune
of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree plantations have
expanded violently, imposed by a forestry development model
instituted during the military dictatorship and still currently
in force.
August 2005 - Also
available in Spanish |
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Indigenous
Peoples. Their forests, struggles and rights
This
book gathers articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin
of the World Rainforest Movement regarding indigenous peoples
and their struggles in defence of the forest. In the book, the
major issue of indigenous peoples still living in voluntary isolation
is highlighted as a way of contributing to the protection of their
rights.
December 2005. Also
available in French and Spanish |
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Women,
forests and plantations. The gender Dimension
Selection
of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of
the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the gender dimension
of the impacts in the forests of plantations. Agust 2005. Also available
in French and Spanish |
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Promises
of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil
Edited
by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM
By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares - May 2005 Also available
in Spanish and Portuguese |
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Carbon
Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes
Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR
monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant
communities
Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and
WRM - May 2005
Also
available in Spanish |
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The whiteness of a
sheet of paper hides obscure stories of enviromental degradation
and social dispossession. Those stries are seldom know by
consumers living far away from where the raw material -wwod-
is obteined and from where pulp and paper are produced.
It is therefore important to kno-and tell- the story - April
2005
Also
available in Spanish and Portuguese |
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Broken
Promises: How World Bank Group policies and practice fail
to protect forests and forest peoples’ rights’.
This
publication is the result of a joint effort -carried out
by the Forest Peoples Programme, Rainforest Foundation UK,
Environmental Defense, Global Witness, SinksWatch, CDM Watch,
Samata, Down to Earth and World Rainforest Movement- to
highlight the role that the World Bank Group plays in forest
destruction and the violation of forest peoples’ rights. April 2005 |
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Genetically
Modified Trees. The Ultimate Threat to Forests.
Research
commissioned to Chris Lang by World
Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International.
December 2004. Also
available in Spanish and Portuguese |
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Community
Forests. Equity, use and conservation.
World
Rainforest Movement. June 2004. Also
available in French and Spanish |
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Mining.
Social and Environmental Impacts.
Selection
of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of
the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the issue of the
impacts mining. March 2004. Also
available in French and Spanish |
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Protected
Areas. Protected Against Whom?.
by
Oilwatch and World Rainforest Movement.
The book contains information disseminated in different formats
by both organizations and most of the articles have been previously
published in the electronic bulletins of Oilwatch ("Resistance")
and WRM - January 2004. - Also available in Spanish |
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Certifying
the Uncertifiable. FSC Certification of Tree Plantations
in Thailand and Brazil.
This book aims at contributing to the debate
over the certification of large-scale tree monocultures.
World Rainforest Movement - August 2003. Also
available in Portuguese and Spanish |
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Salvaging
Nature. Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity
Conservation.
by
Marcus Colchester. Published in 1994 as a discussion document,
this revised and expanded edition incorporates additional
and more recent material. World Rainforest Movement and Forest Peoples Programme - August 2003. Also
available in Spanish and French |
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Plantations
are not forests.
Selection
of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of
the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the issue of the
impacts of large scale monoculture tree plantations. August
2003. Also available
in Portuguese and Spanish |
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Dams.
Struggles against the modern dinosaurs.
Selection
of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of
the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the issue of the
impacts of large dams on forests ans local communities. April
2003. Also available
in French and Spanish. |
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Community-based
Forest Management.
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic
bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the
issue of the Community Forest Management. December 2002. (Out of stock) |
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Mangroves:
Local livelihoods vs. corporate profits.
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic
bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the
issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove
forests and the struggles developed at the local and global
levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable
and environmentally adequate manner. December 2002. Also
available in French and Spanish. |
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Africa:
Forests under threat.
Selection
of articles published in the WRM bulletin addressing the
issue of the processes leading to the destruction of African
forests and the struggles developed there to protect and
use these forests adequately. August 2002. Also available in Spanish and in French. |
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Bosque
Amazónico: 10 años después de la Cumbre
de la Tierra.
Análisis de la situación actual de los bosques
amazónicos, en relación a su conservación,
manejo y destrucción, teniendo como marco el cumplimiento
o no de los acuerdos de Río.
WRM - Diciembre de 2001. (only in Spanish) (Out of stock) |
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FSC:
Unsustainable Certification of Large Scale Tree Plantations
selection
of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement's
(WRM) Bulletin on the issue of Forest Stewardship Council
certification of tree plantations, October 2001. Also
available in Spanish (Out of stock) |
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The
Bitter Fruit of Oil Palm
WRM's book on the impacts of oil palm
plantations, August 2001. Also
available in
Spanish |
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Sinks
that stink - selection of articles
published in the World Rainforest Movement's (WRM) Bulletin
on the issue of climate change. World Rainforest Movement,
October 2000. Also available in
Spanish (Out
of stock) |
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The
high cost of cheap oil
S
election of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement's
(WRM) Bulletin on the issue of oil exploitation. World Rainforest
Movement, July 2000. Also available in Spanish . (Out
of stock) |
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Plantations
Campaign. The carbon shop: planting new problems.
Larry Lohmann, WRM, December 2000. Also available in
Spanish, French and Portuguese |
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WRM
Statement to the World Trade Organization (WTO),
November 1999. World Rainforest Movement. (bilingual English-Spanish leaflet) |
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Plantations
Campaign. Ten replies to ten lies.
Ricardo Carrere, WRM, August 1999. Also available in
Spanish, French and Portuguese |
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Plantations
Campaign. Pulpwood Plantations: a growing problem.
World Rainforest
Movement, June 1999. Also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese |
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The
World Bank's Forest Policy Implementation Review and Strategy
Development (FPIRS).
WRM, FPP and
EDF, May 1999 (briefing paper also available in
Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian) |
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Tree
Plantations: Impacts and Struggles
Selection of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement's
(WRM) Bulletin on the issue of industrial tree plantations,
February 1999. Also available in
Spanish |
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High
Stakes. The need to control transnational logging companies:
a Malaysian case study.
World Rainforest Movement and Forest Monitor, 1998. Also
available in Spanish, French and Malay. |
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WRM
Statement to the Fourth Conference of the Parties of the Climate
Change Convention.
Buenos Aires,
November 1998. World Rainforest Movement (bilingual English-Spanish leaflet) |
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Guyana,
Fragile Frontier: loggers, miners and forest peoples.
Marcus Colchester. Latin America Bureau and
World Rainforest Movement, 1997 |
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Pulping
the South: industrial tree plantations and the world paper economy.
Ricardo Carrere & Larry Lohmann. 1996. World Rainforest
Movement & Zed Books Ltd. 1996. Also available in
Spanish |
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Venezuela:
Violations of Indigenous Rights.
Report
to the International Labour Office on the observation of ILO
Convention 107. Marcus Colchester (WRM) with Fiona Watson
(Survival International), 1995. Disponible también en español. |
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Who's Who in Suriname's
Forests. Marcus Colchester, 1995. |
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The
Twa of Rwanda.
Jerome Lewis and
Judy Knight. 1995. World Rainforest Movement and International
Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1995. |
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Esclave
et Enclave: Vers une ecologie politique de l'Afrique equatoriale.
Marcus Colchester, 1995. |
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Forest
Politics in Suriname.
Marcus Colchester,
International Books, 1995. |
