Articles from the WRM Bulletin
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September 21st: International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
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Borneo: Penan village successfully resists logging operations
2018
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“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
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Trade deals threaten peasant farmer’s stewardship of seed biodiversity
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Environmental regulation in the Green Economy: Changed to facilitate destruction
2016
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Territories and food sovereignty: Where the struggles of peasants and forest communities converge
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Stora Enso and GM trees: Intensifying destruction of forests and peoples
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REDD Alert! How REDD+ projects undermine peasant farming and real solutions to climate change
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Logging concessions; basis of an industry, or political control?
2015
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Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
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Tree factories: An overview of the impacts and interests behind GE trees
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RSPO: fake promises promoting further oil palm plantations expansion
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International Day in Defense of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Seeds
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International campaign to define forests for their true meaning
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How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
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Declaration of the People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima, Peru
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Challenges for the struggles of women rooted in their territories: A decolonial perspective
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Accelerating deforestation: Financialization as a driver of infrastructure projects
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10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations
2014
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Women oil palm plantation workers in Asia: Gender inequity and exploitation
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Asian movements and organizations reject the “Green Economy”
2012
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Books and Briefings
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“Mainstreaming biodiversity” in extractive industries: Concealing devastation and land grabbing
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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Impacts of Large Scale Oil Palm Plantations on Women
A Collection of Articles Published in the WRM Bulletin on the issue of Resistance, Women and the Impacts of Plantations.
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13 Replies to 13 Lies about Oil Palm Monoculture Plantations
“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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Plantations, poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South
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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Plantations in the mekong region: overview
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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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. Oil Palm. From Cosmetics to Biodiesel, Colonization Lives...
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Indigenous Peoples. Their forests, struggles and rights
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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The direct and underlying causes of forest loss
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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Other Relevant Information
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WWF funds guards who have tortured and killed people
A recent BuzzFeed News investigation reveals that the World Wide Fund (WWF) funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching. The authors write that “In national parks across Asia and Africa, the beloved non-profit with the cuddly...
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“New Challenges and Strategies in Defense of Land and Territory”
What is happening with the land and natural wealth around the world, and to the people who depend on them? How are people responding to these trends, threats, and challenges? Aiming to address these issues, 12 articles with powerful...
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Press release: Organizations Denounce the RSPO for Greenwashing the Oil Palm Industry’s Destruction and Violence
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.
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Sign the statement! RSPO: 14 years failing to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector
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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“When murder and abuse become systemic”: violence and impunity across Asia
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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Agrarian reform in reverse in Asia: new laws grab land from farmers
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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“Energy Alternatives, Surveying the Territory”
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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Mekong Commons Internet site
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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Mapping popular alternative proposals of envisioning infrastructure
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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Forests as important as farming for some rural communities
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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“Planet Palm Oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil”, publication by GRAIN
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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The “State of the World’s Rivers” website from the NGO International Rivers, illustrates the alarming situation of the Mekong River Basin.
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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Colonialism and slavery never left: REDD+ in Asia and Africa
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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There you go! – short film from Survival International
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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Saca el metal y corre. Los países emergentes, la Unión Europea y las materias primas no energéticas del Sur global
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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Banking on the Forests: The politics of the ADB’s involvement in Asia’s forests
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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Communities and Forest Management in South Asia
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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Videos
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Collection of videos about the impacts of large scale industrial oil palm plantations
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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