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Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins - Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) editor's pick popular

http://www.asb.cgiar.org/

8 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

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

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

6 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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/

9 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

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/

7 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

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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