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Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) editor's pick popular
working across the world’s tropical forest margins to raise the productivity and income of poor rural households without increasing deforestation or undermining essential environmental services
Added: Aug. 05, 2004 | Rate It
Eating up the Amazon editor's pick
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/7555.pdf
Greenpeace report exposes McDonald's complicity in Amazon rainforest destruction through their use of illegally produced soya produced on deforested lands to raise their meat (pdf)
Added: Apr. 08, 2006 | Rate It
Last Stand of the Orangutan, The editor's pick
http://www.unep.org/grasp/docs/2007Jan-LastStand-of-Orangutan-report.pdf
a UNEP report which details the state of emergency in Indonesia's National Parks including illegal logging, fire and oil palm (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Agrofuels in Africa: The impacts on land, food and forests
http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/ABN_Agro.pdf
a report published by the African Biodiversity Network about the impacts on biofuel production and plans in Africa, with case studies from Benin, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia; looking at deforestation, other ecosystem destruction, land rights and food sovereignty
Added: Jul. 05, 2007 | Rate It
Coffee Exports from Costa Rica
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/coffee.htm
discusses the impacts of increasing production including river pollution, soil erosion, and deforestation; a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It
Costa Rica Beef Exports
http://www.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/costbeef.htm
a discussion of deforestation due expressly to cattle ranching with special attention paid to Costa Rica, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It
Environmental and Cultural Implications of Guatemalan Coffee Production
http://www.american.edu/TED/guatcoff.htm
a case study focusing on Guatemalan coffee and the benefits of shade grown coffee, from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It
Grain - Soya Nexus in South America
http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=493
a report about the environmental effects of the rapid spread of soya, whose oil is primarily used in the production of biofuels and animal feeds
Added: Feb. 26, 2008 | Rate It
Policies and Practice in Indonesian Peatlands
http://www.tropenbos.nl/news/mini%20symposium%20Wardojo/Marcel%20Silvius%20-%20Tropenbos2-7-'06.pdf
Wetlands International presentation on the destruction of Indonesia's peatlands and the impact on global warming and on biodiversity, freshwater supplies, and local communities (pdf)
Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It
Poverty Reduction and Biodiversity Conservation: The Complex Role for Intensifying Agriculture
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/mellor.pdf
report by WWF which explores the impacts of agricultural practices on the environment and biodiversity conservation (pdf)
Added: Feb. 01, 2003 | Rate It
Rainforest Saver
http://www.rainforestsaver.org/html/
promotes a regenerative agriculture system using alley cropping with Inga trees as an alternative to intensive slash-and-burn techniques which destroy rainforests
Added: May. 21, 2006 | Rate It
TimberWatch
http://www.timberwatch.org.za/
a coalition that shares a common concern for the ways timber plantations impact on biodiversity, human communities, natural landscapes and ecosystem health - particulary in South Africa
Added: Oct. 20, 2003 | Rate It
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