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The rubber tree is originally from the Amazon forest but now spread over all tropical forest regions. Rubber plantations are increasingly large-scale, intensively-managed and even-aged plantations, for industrial purposes especially tires for the automotive industry. However, the plantations can also be managed by communities in small areas or mixed with other trees in forested areas, common in the Amazon. Plantations are about 10 million hectares worldwide (2010), and concentrated in Asia.
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company, holds hundreds of thousands hectares of land as an agricultural concession. GVL is now pushing to permit logging for export in its concession. International environmentalists are calling...
read moreWomen’s roles, rights and responsibility in natural resources: Some reflections from Mekong Region
10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations
Guatemala: The silent advance of industrial rubber tree plantations
Gabon: New study warns of impacts of the expansion of oil palm and rubber tree plantations
Mozambique: Monoculture tree plantation projects foster land grabbing, threaten food security
Laos: Expansion of rubber plantations – more conflicts with communities
Cameroon: Major impacts of oil palm agribusiness on food sovereignty and livelihoods
Nigeria: Michelin’s rubber plantations destroyed women’s livelihoods
Cambodia: Indigenous people confronted with a rubber plantation empire
Only available in French By Franck Ndijimbi. The NGO Brainforest, in collaboration with FERN and WRM, has conducted this study on the impacts of the expansion of oil palm and rubber tree plantations in Gabon. Tropical rainforests cover 85%...
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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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(Only available in French) Populations locales versus plantations commerciales d’hévéas et de palmiers à huile dans le Sud-Cameroun By Julien-François Gerber Résistances contre deux géants industriels en forêt...
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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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Oil palm and rubber plantations are very similar in many respects, but there is something that clearly differentiates them: oil palm is a native species in many West African countries –and part of the culture of local peoples- while...
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The following Statement was issued on 24/11/05 in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil at an international meeting on building support for local communities against large-scale tree plantations and GMO trees. This meeting was co-sponsored by...
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A study from Agroforestry World has shown that while China has increased the amount of tree cover with a reforestation and ‘payment for ecosystem services’ program, it has failed to protect natural forests. Rubber and pulpwood...
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ACTION ALERT – GABON As many countries in Africa, Gabon is facing an alarming rate of expansion of oil palm and rubber plantations. The government has given the Singapore based company Olam 300,000 hectares of land to establish...
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By Ms Sayamol Kaiyoorawong and Ms Bandita Yangdee – Project for Ecological Awareness Building This article examines whether rubber farmers in Thailand are going to have a bright future, in terms of their economic, social,...
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by Andrew Cock. In “Plantations are not Forests. Commercial Tree Plantations in the Mekong Region”.Vol. 9 No. 3 March – June 2004. Published by Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA) Obsolete concepts...
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By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...
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