RECOMMENDED READINGS

Below we have selected several recommended readings that WRM has published during previous years. The list has no specific order, but we have added general documents for those interested in learning the different problems large scale tree plantations pose to people’s livelihoods.

This is just a selection of 8 documents, however under the Publications section you will find further reading on many different issues related to plantations and forests as well as country specific documents.

Ten replies to ten lies - Plantations Campaign By World Rainforest Movement. August 1999. Also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese
From Cosmetics to Biodiesel - Colonization Lives On - Oil Palm. Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the impacts of the oil palm plantations in the forestss. September 2006. Also available in Spanish
WRM Special Bulletin on Pulpwood and Timber Plantations June 2004 - Also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese
Women and Eucalyptus Stories of Life and Resistance Impacts of Eucalyptus Monocultures on Indigenous and Afrobrazilian Women in the State of Espírito Santo. Brasil - January 2008. Also available in Portuguese and Spanish
Working conditions and health impacts of industrial tree monocultures By World Rainforest Movement. February 2008. Also available in Spanish
Transgenic Trees By World Rainforest Movement. December 2007. Also available in Spanish French and in Portuguese.
Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities. Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and WRM. May 2005. Also available in Spanish
Special Bulletin of WRM focused on FSC certification of plantations July 2006. Also available in Spanish, French and Portuguese