World Rainforest Movement
Considered among the main direct causes of deforestation in tropical forest countries, these activities are most often destined for export-oriented products like soy and meat. They often destroy areas already degraded by logging activities.
What is the role of the agro-industry, and what actors are behind this enormous chain of production?
Reflections amid the Covid-19 Pandemic from WRM’s Advisory Committee
Indigenous peoples in Brazil fight against government policies… and the pandemic
“The National Interest”: Neofascism in the Amazon Rainforest
Dynamics and Processes of Change in the Peruvian Amazon: Learning from the Kechwa-Lamas Peoples
No to ProSAVANA and MATOPIBA. Solidarity with people in Mozambique and Brazil!
Indonesia: the resistance of the sacred in Bali to the “green revolution” and the tourism industry
The Farce of “Smart Forestry”. The Cases of Green Resources in Mozambique and Suzano in Brazil
Logging concessions; basis of an industry, or political control?
Living on the run: devastation of the Ayoreos’ lives and land at the hands of livestock farmers
“Climate Smart Agriculture” – The Commodification of soils in the Global South
The forests not seen on picture post-cards: looking beyond the tropical belt
Large-scale infrastructure projects in forests: Constructing a base without a foundation
How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
Kenya: Projected sugar cane plantations may wipe out invaluable Tana River Delta
India: Jatropha plantations destroy the livelihoods of poor local communities
Brazil: New legislation allows agribusiness to advance in the Amazon
A new joint publication by GRAIN and the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) looks at the dangers for peasant communities from one of the main carbon market mechanisms on the table at the upcoming UN summit on climate change in...
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Report about how several prominent development finance institutions (DFIs) are funding Feronia Inc., a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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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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An inteview with Winnie Overbeek, the International Coodinator of the WRM, about the causes and the impacts of the deforestation in the Amazon.
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It should be clear for society that this is not an isolated phenomenon. In fact, it is the result of a series of actions taken by agribusinesses and big miners.
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The Secretary of Family Farming, Coordination and Territorial Development in Misiones, Argentina, signed an agreement to develop the cultivation of genetically modified corn with high productivity, in Misiones and Northeast Corrientes. The...
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Who will feed us? A report from the ETC Group compares the industrial food system with peasant farming. Industrial farming gets all the attention (and most of the land). It accounts for more than 80 per cent of the fossil fuel emissions...
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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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On February 9th and 11th, 2016, over 200 residents of Nueva Concepción, Escuintla, Guatemala, held an action that was historic for their municipality and for many peoples; they freed the Madre Vieja River from several dams that were...
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Press Release. 10th February 2016 – 120 civil society organisations and networks from across the globe have published a declaration today, calling for bioenergy to be excluded from the next EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED) [1]....
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We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive (RED), and thereby stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from biofuels...
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The platform SIF and Collective TANY call on the Malagasy public opinion and all citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure the farmers and local communities rights on their...
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Platform of the Actors on Land – SIF – and the Collective for the Defense of Malagasy Lands – TANY offer you their greetings and would like to urge you to sign a petition. LET’S SAVE MALAGASY FARMERS...
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de EU Latin America. This video explains how a trade relationship – mainly based on the extraction of raw materials – is contributing to depletion of non-renewable natural resources, global warming and social...
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The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture was launched on September 2014, at the UN Climate Summit in New York. This alliance is the outcome of years of determination by FAO and the World Bank to get the concept of “climate-smart...
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The rapid expansion of monocultures of transgenic soy in Paraguay – 95 per cent of which are covered by Monsanto patents – has left in its wake a trail of destruction and desolation. The country’s food sovereignty is at risk, and so...
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Small farmers and indigenous organizations around the world are confronting a deep reduction of the world’s farmland and the processes of displacement from the fields. Even though a significant amount of experts keep claiming that the...
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The Journal of Peasant Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013-14. Part of their series of initiatives to commemorate the anniversary of JPS is the publication of virtual special issues, starting with the 40 Classics in Peasant...
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A movie of An BACCAERT, Nico MUÑOZ and Cristiano NAVARRO (Directors) Production of Directors – 2011 32 ‘ In the south region of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the border of Brazil and Paraguay, the most populous indigenous nation of...
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Only available in Spanish – Por Elizabeth Bravo y Nathalia Bonilla. Las nuevas políticas de agrocombustibles en el Ecuador – Setiembre 2011 Download as...
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Certifying Soy Expansion, GM Soy and Agrofuels ASEED Europe, Base Investigaciones Sociales, Corporate Europe Observatory, Grupo de Reflexión Rural, Rain Forest Action Network – April 2008 This report, published on the eve of the...
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Press Release – 17 April 2008, International Day of Peasant’s Struggle. Asunción, Paraguay One week before the third meeting of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina [1], the Global Forest...
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By Raúl Zibechi. Source: Programa de las Américas – www.ircamericas.org Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the...
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Fiske Menuco (General Roca), (see footnote)* The organisations and individuals who attended the First Patagonian Conference on Biofuels are aware of the true social, economic and ecological consequences suffered throughout the country by...
read more Miguel A Altieri, Professor of Agroecology, University of California, Berkeley Elizabeth Bravo, Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgenicos, Quito, Ecuador The nations of the OECD—the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
read more By Daniel Cassol, March 2007 – MST Informa – Revista Sem Terra (Ed. 38) The discussion around clean, renewable energy production is not new, but now it has become more urgent, especially after the beginning of February when the...
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Only available in Spanish – Durante más de una década los políticos y científicos al servicio de las grandes transnacionales calificaron de alarmistas y poco fundamentadas las previsiones sobre la incidencia de...
read more Only available in Spanish – Por Raúl Zibechi Desde que el proyecto del ALCA fracasó en la Cumbre de Mar del Plata, en noviembre de 2005, el viaje de George W. Bush a Brasil y Uruguay, como parte de una gira que lo lleva también...
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Produced by the World Rainforest Movement Interviews: Winnie Overbeek Camera and Edition: Flavio Pazos. A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil. In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest, which covered the country’s...
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