By Ricardo Carrere
Publications
By Chris Lang and Bruce Shoemaker.
Contents:
· Background: Forests and Rural Communities in Laos
· The Failure of the ADB’s First Plantation Project in Laos
· The ADB’s New Plantations Project in Laos: Repeating the Same
Mistakes?
BOX: The impacts of industrial tree plantations are being increasingly felt by rural communities. Eyewitness reports describe some of these impacts.
· Conclusion
By the World Rainforest Movement
Proponents of industrial tree plantations argue that the plantations are “reforestation”, increasing the area of forest, providing jobs for local people, or reducing pressure on natural forests. This report examines these companies’ operations in Cambodia, the impacts observed to date on the local populations and the environment, and the associated human rights violations.
By John Blessing Karumbidza
By the World Rainforest Movement
Selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement, addressing the gender dimension of the impacts in the forests of plantations
Women, forests and plantations. The gender Dimension
By René Montalba Navarro, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez and José Araya Cornejo
By means of testimonials, documents and figures, the present report sets out the problems faced by that commune of 11,405 inhabitants, where monoculture tree plantations have expanded violently, imposed by a forestry development model instituted during the military dictatorship and still currently in force.
Edited by The Network Alert against the Green Desert and the WRM
By: Alacir De'Nadai, Winfridus Overbeek, Luiz Alberto Soares.
Promises of Jobs and Destruction of Work. The case of Aracruz Celulose in Brazil
Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities
By Patricia Granda. Joint Research of Acción Ecológica and WRM
Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes
This publication is the result of a joint effort -carried out by the Forest Peoples Programme, Rainforest Foundation UK, Environmental Defense, Global Witness, SinksWatch, CDM Watch, Samata, Down to Earth and World Rainforest Movement- to highlight the role that the World Bank Group plays in forest destruction and the violation of forest peoples’ rights.
The whiteness of a sheet of paper hides obscure stories of enviromental degradation and social dispossession. Those stries are seldom know by consumers living far away from where the raw material -wood- is obteined and from where pulp and paper are produced. It is therefore important to know -and tell- the story.
As we all know, the conservation of the world’s forests requires the adoption of a series of measures to change the current model of destruction, among which the empowerment of local communities to manage their own forests.
In most of the countries of the world, there are many examples of appropriate forest management, in which environmentally sustainable use is assured while benefiting local communities.