Forests are threatened by human activities and climate change. This endangers livelihoods of rural communities who depend on them. Further regression of forests would reduce commensurately their capacity to store carbon, with serious negative consequences on world climate.
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26 February 2023 – The Brazilian “Cerrado”: a textbook case of “modern” agricultural development based on resources grabbing, collusion and violence. Brazil’s agricultural “miracle” and its dark side… [read]
11 February 2021 – COVID-19: Is agriculture the main culprit? Expansion of agriculture has a large role in the emergence of pathogens, but deforestation alone is not enough to cause a pandemic. [read]
21 September 2016 – 100 000 premature deaths in South-East Asia: we are all responsible, but we prefer to look elsewhere – Our media are full of the horrors of ‘our enemies’, but we avoid carefully to face the dramatic consequences of our own behaviour. [read]
6 November 2015 – Fire in South-East Asia: a highly visible consequence of our failing food system – Little more than three weeks before COP21, in a quasi-general indifference, fire outbreaks that devastate Borneo constitute a symbol of the absurdity and violence of our global food system. [read]
21 January 2014 – New road across Amazonia will facilitate Brazilian soybean exports – Brazil, top soybean exporter is preparing to build a road through Amazonia. [read]
15 January 2014 – In India, a first ‘‘environmental referendum’’ saves the Dongria Kondh – The Indian authorities cancel a mining project that threatened the Dongria Kondh tribe in Odisha. [read]