Publications

By Patricia Granda Through various government programmes and initiatives, with the support of international cooperation agencies, monoculture tree plantations have been established in Ecuador’s three mainland regions.

By Rivani Noor and Rully Syumanda

By Ricardo Carrere

By Chris Lang and Bruce Shoemaker. Contents: · Background: Forests and Rural Communities in Laos · The Failure of the ADB’s First Plantation Project in Laos · The ADB’s New Plantations Project in Laos: Repeating the Same Mistakes? BOX: The impacts of industrial tree plantations are being increasingly felt by rural communities. Eyewitness reports describe some of these impacts. · Conclusion

By the World Rainforest Movement Proponents of industrial tree plantations argue that the plantations are “reforestation”, increasing the area of forest, providing jobs for local people, or reducing pressure on natural forests. This report examines these companies’ operations in Cambodia, the impacts observed to date on the local populations and the environment, and the associated human rights violations.

By John Blessing Karumbidza

By the World Rainforest Movement

By the World Rainforest Movement Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the gender dimension of the impacts in the forests of plantations Women, forests and plantations. The gender Dimension

By René Montalba Navarro, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez and José Araya Cornejo By means of testimonials, documents and figures, the present report sets out the problems faced by that commune of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree plantations have expanded violently, imposed by a forestry development model instituted during the military dictatorship and still currently in force.

Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares. Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil

Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities By Patricia Granda. Joint Research of Acción Ecológica and WRM Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes

This publication is the result of a joint effort -carried out by the Forest Peoples Programme, Rainforest Foundation UK, Environmental Defense, Global Witness, SinksWatch, CDM Watch, Samata, Down to Earth and World Rainforest Movement- to highlight the role that the World Bank Group plays in forest destruction and the violation of forest peoples’ rights.