Large-Scale Tree Plantations
Industrial tree plantations are large-scale, intensively managed, even-aged monocultures, involving vast areas of fertile land under the control of plantation companies. Management of plantations involves the use of huge amounts of water as well as agrochemicals—which harm humans, and plants and animals in the plantations and surrounding areas.
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26 September 2014
Other information
26 September 2014
Bulletin articles
26 September 2014
Bulletin articles
26 September 2014
Bulletin articles
26 September 2014
Bulletin articles
26 September 2014
In the early 17th century, during the colonial era, shipwrecked Africans reached the Caribbean coast, inhabited by the Kalinagu or Caribe people. Over the years, cultural syncretism gave rise to the ethnic identity of the Garifuna people. The fusion produced the Garifuna language, religion and traditions. The Garifuna people settled river estuaries and marshes on the coasts of several Central American countries, where they engaged in fishing and subsistence agriculture.
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26 September 2014
Representatives of organizations from different Latin American countries and of international networks met together in La Ceiba, Honduras, verified from local testimonies the serious situation faced by campesino, indigenous and Garifuna communities due to the voracious advance of monocultures of African palm.
Publications
24 September 2014
Research on genetically engineered trees is being –or has beencarried out in a number of countries, but the public is either unaware about this or has been led to believe that this is a positive scientific development for the “improvement” of trees.
Publications
23 September 2014
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Documento informativo del Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales (WRM)