Working conditions and health impacts of industrial tree monocultures
By World Rainforest Movement. February 2008. Also available in Spanish

Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil
Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM
By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares - May 2005
Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

2012

• New crossroads, same actors: The green economy of the powerful, voices of resistance of women

2011

• Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul - The new eucalyptus frontier

2010

• Uruguay: Tree plantation workers and agrotoxic spraying
• French economic group Bolloré attempts to intimidate journalists who expose abusive practices on its plantations in Cameroon

2008

• Burma: The military’s forced labour jatropha campaign

• Rural livelihoods made vulnerable as rubber investments take over land in Laos

• Indonesia: Harsh conditions for women workers in oil palm plantations français português
• Liberia: Painful rubber – the hard day’s life of Firestone tappers français português
• An overview of the problems faced by Mozambique’s forests, forest-dependent peoples and forest workers
• Chile: The “modern slaves” of the “forestry boom”

2007

• Chile: What is not said about work in tree plantations
• Uruguay: Labour conditions in two FSC certified tree nurseries
• Working conditions on tree plantations: A health issue

• Uruguay: The sad situation of tree plantation workers

• South Africa: Working conditions and the contract labour system in timber plantations

• Malaysia: “Cheap” Paraquat at the expense of the workers’ health

• Cameroon: The tough reality in oil palm plantations

2006

• South Africa: Differentiated impacts of tree plantations on women
• Creating ‘manageable’ forests: Plantations and Plantation Workers in India
• Malaysia: Women plantations workers’ conditions in oil palm plantations
• Liberia: Lawsuit against Firestone for slavery and child labor on rubber plantations

2005

• South Africa: Women forestry workers under outsourcing schemes
• Liberia: Report exposes dire working and living conditions in Firestone rubber plantation

2004

• Women Plantation Workers Poisoned and Silenced

2003

• Brazil: Women’s working conditions in tree plantations
• Uruguay: Semi-slave work in plantation forestry
• Malaysia: The plight of women workers in oil palm plantations
• Uruguay: Inhuman working conditions at a Chilean forestry company

2002

• Colombia: Anti-trade union policy in oil palm plantations

2001

• Colombia: The hard life of oil palm plantation workers
• The rights and welfare of plantation workers
• Congo, R.: Shell's eucalyptus plantations now provide even fewer jobs

2000

• Chile: The exploitation of forestry workers

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• “Poor, but honest petroleum workers (or, useful dulls)” - by Eduardo Rojas H. (Economist) Ex – worker of C.E.P.E. (Ecuadorian Oil Owned-State Corporation) (now Petroecuador). The most serious, and without postponement analysis about the environmental destruction, that oil exploitation causes in the Ecuadorian Amazon Region (EAR), in spite of the dollars it produces.

• Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil - A book edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM. By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares. May 2005. Also available in Spanish and Portuguese

• Poisoned and Silenced: A study of pesticide poisoning in the plantations - Tenaganita and PAN Asia and the Pacific, Malaysia, March 2002.