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Five reasons why REDD is bad for peasant farmers

Posted on 30 October 201513 February 2019

“REDD+ is not just a false solution to the urgent and critical problem of climate change. It reinforces the corporate food and farming system that is largely responsible for climate change and undermines the food and agricultural systems of peasants and indigenous peoples that can cool the planet.”

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International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures: “Plantations are not Forests”

Posted on 22 September 2015

Yesterday was the tenth International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures. The Day aims to focus attention on the impacts of industrial tree plantations on communities. This year the focus is on the impacts of oil palm plantations.

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The Financiali$ation of Nature

Posted on 19 August 20151 September 2020

“Financialisation means the increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors and financial institutions in the operation of the domestic and international economies.”

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REDD safeguards: Protecting investments or upholding rights?

Posted on 12 March 201525 November 2017

Over the next few weeks, REDD-Monitor will feature a series of posts about REDD safeguards. This post, which forms an introduction to the series, is written by Ivonne Yanez of Acción Ecológica in Ecuador and is cross-posted from the World Rainforest Movement.

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World Rainforest Movement call to action: No to REDD, extractivism, and capitalism

Posted on 1 December 201430 November 2015

At the end of last week, just before the start of this year’s United Nations climate negotiations (COP20) in Lima, Peru, World Rainforest Movement and other signatories put out a call to action “to reject REDD+ and extractive industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories”.

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“We spend a fortune in taxpayers’ money trying to save a small area of forest. When the project is over the people or the army will log the area. I don’t know why we bother. We can hear the chainsaws nearby. They pay the men $20 to work all night felling trees. They give them yaba [methamphetamine] so they can keep working.”

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