World Rainforest Movement

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE WRM BULLETIN

2007

• Argentina: Chaco – land clearance, undernutrition and death

• Honduras: The reasons for defending the forest

• Brazil: Agro-fuels represent a new cycle of devastation of the Amazon and Cerrado regions

2006

• Kenya: The roots of the current drought

2005

• Roads of Deforestation in Brazil: How soya and cattle are destroying the Amazon with the help of the IF

2004

• Central Africa: The Twa Alienation from their Forests Impact Doubly on Women
• Paraguay: Forests and communities at the mercy of an unsustainable model

2002

• Tanzania: Traditional knowledge in forest restoration
• Tanzania: Biodiversity loss linked to IMF-promoted commercial agriculture and mining

2001

• Jamaica: Deforestation linked to mining, agriculture and tourism
• Eritrea: Sustainable forest use threatened by government policies
• Argentina: Forest conserved by the Wichí destroyed by agricultural companies

1999

• A destructive megaproject for Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico

WRM Special Bulletin Nº 85 - August 2004 (complete version here)

Large-scale agriculture and cattle-raising are activities which impact heavily on the world's forests and on their peoples, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical regions. However, in spite of the fact that those activities are continuously expanding, they are receiving much less attention than in the past. For this reason, we have focused the present bulletin on both, with the aim of raising awareness about the different issues and actors involved in order to create conditions for change.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

The Violence of the Green Revolution. Third World Agriculture, Ecology and Politics.
by Vandana Shiva

Marketing the Earth. The World Bank and Sustainable Development
by Halifax Initiative and Friends of the Earth
August 2002

Hamburger Connection Fuels Amazon Destruction. Cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil's Amazon
Center for International Forestry Research
by David Kaimowitz, Benoit Mertens, Sven Wunder and Pablo Pacheco

Conexión entre ganadería y deforestación Amazónica,
CLAES, Centro Latino Americano de Ecologia Social

Support Banana Workers: Bring Justice to the Table
by Kate Mendenhall and Margaret Reeves
Global Pesticide Campaigner - April 2004 Volume 14, Number 1

Intellectual Property Rights: Ultimate control of agricultural R&D in Asia
Grain - March 2001

Corporate actors in the South American soy production chain
A research paper prepared for World Wide Fund for Nature Switzerland
November 2002 - Focus on Finance - Jan Willem van Gelder & Jan Maarten Dros

The Environmental Cost and Unsustainability of Industrial Agriculture
- How Mega-Corporations Exploit the Profit Potential of Our Food System
- Industrial Agriculture Hurts the Health of Farmers, Farm Workers, and All of Us
- Moving Forward Toward a Fair and Sustainable Agriculture System
Grinning Planet, issues 57 to 60

LINKS

FAO
http://www.fao.org

Grain
http://www.grain.org/front/

Banana Link
http://www.bananalink.org.uk/