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REDD 15 years
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15 Years of REDD: A Mechanism Rotten at the Core

This publication gathers eleven articles that reflect on fundamental and dangerous dimensions of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), the dominant forest policy around the world since 2007.
28 April 2022
India publication
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Struggles for the right to live in forests declared Protected Areas in India

New publication calls attention to the devastating impacts of Protected Areas in India.
15 March 2022
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What could be wrong about planting trees? The new push for more industrial tree plantations in the Global South

This publication aims to alert community groups and activists about the corporate push for a new round of large-scale tree plantation expansion.

23 March 2020
21 march
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How forest policies and agencies promote sustainable destruction

On the eve of March 21, the day FAO celebrates its International Day of sustainable forest destruction, WRM is releasing a briefing that looks back at a UN-led process on the Underlying Causes of Deforestation that took place more than 20 years ago. The Underlying Causes identified in 1999 do not only remain as significant today as they were. They have even been reinforced in many ways.
18 March 2022
Cover nine reasons
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Nine Reasons to Say NO to Contract Farming with Palm Oil Companies

Why do peasant farmers lose out when they produce for the palm oil industry? A publication based on experiences from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

19 July 2021
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Attacks on Forest-Dependent Communities in Indonesia and Resistance Stories

WRM Bulletin Compilation. Available in English and Indonesian.

6 April 2021
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Development Finance as Agro-Colonialism: European Development Bank funding of Feronia-PHC oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The report details abuses faced by communities affected by industrial oil palm plantations managed by the Congolese company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC).

5 February 2021
What kind of future for WRM
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What Kind of Future for the World Rainforest Movement?

20 Years after Addressing the Underlying Causes of Deforestation.
10 January 2021
Publications

Arbaro Fund: More Money, More Conflict?

Company plans 75,000 hectare expansion of Industrial Tree Plantations in Seven Countries in the Global South: Sierra Leone, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Download the leafelt to know more about the company and why communities should be alert.

6 July 2020
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Communities facing Zero Deforestation pledges: the case of OLAM in Gabon

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19 February 2020
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Offsets in the forests

A logic that violates indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights while facilitating further deforestation. A compilation of articles from the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin (WRM). October 2019

30 October 2019
Publications

Árvores transgênicas e plantações de monoculturas de árvores: Conflitos, ameaças e lutas de resistência no Brasil

Only available in Portuguese.

30 September 2019