World Rainforest Movement
September 21st: International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Borneo: Penan village successfully resists logging operations
“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
Trade deals threaten peasant farmer’s stewardship of seed biodiversity
Environmental regulation in the Green Economy: Changed to facilitate destruction
Territories and food sovereignty: Where the struggles of peasants and forest communities converge
Stora Enso and GM trees: Intensifying destruction of forests and peoples
REDD Alert! How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
Logging concessions; basis of an industry, or political control?
Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
Tree factories: An overview of the impacts and interests behind GE trees
RSPO: fake promises promoting further oil palm plantations expansion
International Day in Defense of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Seeds
International campaign to define forests for their true meaning
How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
Declaration of the People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima, Peru
Challenges for the struggles of women rooted in their territories: A decolonial perspective
Accelerating deforestation: Financialization as a driver of infrastructure projects
10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations
Women oil palm plantation workers in Asia: Gender inequity and exploitation
Asian movements and organizations reject the “Green Economy”
A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin on the occasion of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to be held 17 – 29 November, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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“12 Replies to 12 Lies about Oil Palm Monoculture Plantations” has been updated. The publication now includes a chapter about how oil palm companies lie when they say they respect women’s rights.
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By Chris Lang The area of industrial tree plantations is expanding in the global South. Vast areas of monocultures have been established to feed raw material to the pulp and paper industry. This report investigates the role of European...
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Eucalyptus, oil palm, rubber and jatropha monoculture plantations are expanding onto local communities’ lands and forests in the Mekong region’s countries. Promoted under the guise of development, poverty alleviation and even climate...
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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. Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel, Colonization Lives...
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By the World Rainforest Movement This book gathers articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) regarding indigenous peoples and their struggles in defence of the forest. These peoples are...
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Forests are one of the most valuable eco-systems in the world, containing over 60 per cent of the world’s biodiversity. This biodiversity has multiple social and economic values, apart from its intrinsic value, varying from the...
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On November 12, with the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement publish an open statement denouncing the failure of the RSPO to eliminate the violence and destruction that oil palm plantations.
read more We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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The recently released Newsletter from Focus on the Global South draws attention to the alarming escalation of violence against communities, criminalization of dissent, and the systemic impunity that allows this to happen. Ten articles...
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A report by the NGO GRAIN shows how governments throughout Asia are quietly enacting a host of legislative changes that eliminate the few protections that farmers have traditionally enjoyed, exposing them to appropriation of their lands...
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This report from the organization Corner House explores the question “What’s the alternative to current energy systems?” in a context of a growing climate crisis and increasing uncertainty over the future of fossil fuels. In energy...
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This site examines the questions surrounding the Mekong Region’s ‘development’, and tries to identify new ones, giving particular importance to both the consequences that are masked from mainstream explanations, as well as...
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The NGO network ECA Watch is mapping social movements’ alternative proposals to the large-scale infrastructure projects, including water, energy or transport infrastructure. The aim is to spread information and proposals, and to...
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A global study carried out by the Poverty and Environment Network has helped in understanding the role forests play in enhancing people’s livelihoods, confirming that forests do provide an important source of rural income, but...
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Producing cheap palm oil comes at a high price: destruction of rainforests, labour exploitation, and brutal land grabbing. With lands in Indonesia and Malaysia becoming more difficult for palm oil companies to acquire, attention is...
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By selecting the ‘Mekong River Basin’ from the left panel where it says 2River Basins in Focus’, detailed information will appear about the area. The Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia and the tenth longest river in...
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By SERVINDI . While the world’s governments debate the catastrophic consequences of global warming, a trading structure of global scope threatens to establish a new form of subjugation in Asia and Africa, by appropriating one of the...
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Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing. “There you go” is a short, satirical film, from Survival International, that tells the story of how...
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Only available in Spanish – By Guadalupe Rodríguez, Salva la Selva. El acceso y abastecimiento de materias primas no energéticas, especialmente minerales metálicos y no metálicos, no ha recibido -al contrario que la cuestión...
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By Chris Lang Tadao Chino, the Asian Development Bank’s president, cannot pretend that he does not know what NGOs want from his Bank. During the Bank’s 2001 Annual General Meeting in Hawai’i, he left the convention centre to accept a...
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By the international Working Group on Community Involvement in Forest Management, September 2000. A regional profile of WG-CIFM, the working group on community Involvement in forest management Communities and Forest Management in South...
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Continuing with the communications for September 21st, this time we would like to share with all of you a collection of videos that we have prepared together with GRAIN, on the impacts of large scale industrial oil palm plantations. The...
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