Issues

Country

REDD in portel
Publications

Neocolonialism in the Amazon: REDD Projects in Portel, Brazil

Amid the flurry of news about investments in carbon markets, a new WRM study has taken a closer look at a REDD initiative underway in the municipality of Portel, in the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon. The case illustrates what is known as "carbon colonialism".
9 November 2022
cover wrm briefing
Publications

WRM Briefing: A critical reflection on participation in international forest policy processes

On the eve of two new rounds of UN climate and biodiversity Conferences of the Parties (COPs), this document intends to reflect on participation in international forest policy processes. The briefing is based on WRM’s experience and that of grassroots activists with whom WRM collaborates.
31 October 2022
portada 12 mentiras inglés
Publications

12 Replies to 12 Lies about Industrial Tree Plantations

This publication exposes the most common misleading statements currently used by plantation companies. It’s is based on the briefing "Ten Replies to Ten Lies" written by Ricardo Carrere in 1999.
21 September 2022
REDD 15 years
Publications

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
21 march
Publications

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
India publication
Publications

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
Cover nine reasons
Publications

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
compilacion indonesia
Publications

Attacks on Forest-Dependent Communities in Indonesia and Resistance Stories

WRM Bulletin Compilation. Available in English and Indonesian.

6 April 2021
Publications

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
Publications

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
Publications

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