Disponible uniquement en anglais .
For many people around the world, the relationship between the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the future of forests appears to be difficult to perceive. The following briefing aims at assisting people to understand those links and therefore to facilitate their involvement in the struggle to radically modify the current corporate-led approach to international trade.
The World Trade Organization and Forests
Publications
Disponible uniquement en anglais .
Ten years after the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, forests continue disappearing at an alarming rate. According to the FAO, some 161 million hectares of forest were lost during the 1990's, which means that the average rate of deforestation remained basically unchanged compared to the one that occured during the 1980's.
The World Bank in the Forest
Ce livre est un recueil d'articles publiés dans le bulletin électronique mensuel du Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales (WRM) au sujet du processus de destruction des forêts de l'Afrique et des combats menés pour qu'elles soient protégées et utilisées comme il faut.
Disponible uniquement en anglais et espagnol.
By Forest Peoples Programme, Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links and the World Rainforest Movement
L’industrie de la pâte de bois et l’industrie papetière constituent aujourd’hui un problème croissant pour des millions de personnes de toutes les régions du monde. Les populations locales et environnementalistes, de l’Australie jusqu’à la Finlande, du Chili jusqu’au Canada, s’opposent de plus en plus au déchiquetage des forêts naturelles en vue de fournir en matières premières les industries en question.
This book, commissioned by the World Rainforest Movement at its meeting in Delhi in April 1994, has its origins in increasing concern among non-governmental organizations in the South over the spread of monoculture tree plantations. It is intended as a tool for all movements alarmed at the social, political and environmental effects of these plantations.