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Position paper: plantations are not forests
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Friends of the Earth International, July 2010: Tree plantations are not forests. They are a monoculture which causes huge impacts throughout the world. Plantations are a huge number of very rapidly growing single species of trees of the same age that are sawn to occupy considerable land areas, with very high consumption of soil nutrients and water. When they reach their reproductive cycle, they are all cut down to the ground.
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Nyeleni Forum for Food Sovereignty 2007
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The report of the Forum for Food Sovereignty held in February 2007 in Nyeleni, Mali: The Forum For Food Sovereignty, was an opportunity for people who har-
vest and produce food from the forests, waters, and lands around the world to share in-
formation and develop strategies to protect their livelihoods and the health of the Earth
from the forces that seek to control, contaminate, and destroy them.
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fertile resistance in forests
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Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement, August 2002: This report talks about local communities around the world defending forest diversity without a government mandate.
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Wolf in Sheep's Clothing ‘sustainably’ - Summary
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An analysis of proposals to intensify agriculture
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2010 BIODIVERSITY YEAR: URGENT ACTION NEEDED
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SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, January 11, 2010 – Commenting on today’s announcement by the United Nations that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity and that “the world is invited to take action to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity”, Friends of the Earth International’s coordinator of the Forest and Biodiversity Programme Isaac Rojas said:
“It is urgent to take immediate action to preserve biodiversity. Nearly half of the world’s forests and around one-third of its species have been lost in the past three decades. We especially need to protect our forests, which host more than 70% of terrestrial biodiversity. "
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TREE PLANTATIONS CAUSE GRAVE PROBLEMS
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COSTA RICA, September 21st, 2010 – Today Friends of the Earth International celebrates the international day against tree plantations, a yearly event aimed at exposing that large-scale plantations cause grave problems for local people and the environment. [1]
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Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit
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MONROVIA, LIBERIA, February 1st, 2013 – Palm oil companies are grabbing more than 1.5 million acres of land in Liberia and are violating the human rights of local communities, warn Liberian NGOs including Friends of the Earth Liberia (SDI - Sustainable Development Institute), Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU) and Social Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development (SESDev).
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'CERTIFIED' PALM OIL NOT A SOLUTION
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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA November 3, 2009 -- Certifying palm oil is not a solution to the environmental damage and human rights violations caused by oil palm plantations, said Friends of the Earth International today during the meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Malaysia.
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new stories about tree plantations and women
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Three new case studies and a video on the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on women in Nigeria, Papua New Guinea and Brazil were released on Sunday 8 March 2009, in recognition of International Women’s Day.
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Sumatrian Forest Carbon Deal slammed by FoE Australia and Indonesia
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Friends of the Earth Australia and WAHLI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) have come out strongly in opposition to the new Australian-Indonesian Forest Carbon Partnership announced to coincide with the Indonesian President’s visit to Canberra.
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