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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

ETC Group editor's pick

http://www.etcgroup.org/

1 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies
Added: Jan. 31, 2001 | Rate It

Cocoa Trade in Cote d'Ivoire (COCOA) popular

http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/cocoa.htm

5 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

report on the impacts on African tropical rainforests caused by one of the World's largest producers of cocoa, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | Rate It

Costa Rica Beef Exports

http://www1.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

Komunitas Konservasi Indonesia - WARSI

http://www.warsi.or.id

5 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

a network that supports habitat and resources management for the Orang Rimba (Kubu) in Indonesia, whose habitat has been reduced for conversion of forest for oil palm plantations and transmigration
Added: Jun. 16, 2003 | Rate It

La Soja Mata - Soy Kills

http://www.lasojamata.org/

provides information about the direct impacts of large scale monocultures, specifically soy, on people's lives and the environment in Paraguay
Added: Oct. 30, 2008 | Rate It

Philippine Sugar and Environment updated

http://www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/philsug.htm

3 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

an assessment on how sugar has exacted a heavy environmental toll in the Philippines, a case study from American University's Trade and Environment Database
Added: Mar. 08, 2001 | 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

Problem with Palm Oil, The - Rainforest Agribusiness

http://theproblemwithpalmoil.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

the Rainforest Action Network show how demand for palm oil is on the rise and pristine rainforests are being clear-cut and burned to make way for palm oil plantations
Added: May. 16, 2008 | Rate It

Voluntary Carbon Standard - Guidance for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Projects

http://www.v-c-s.org/docs/AFOLU%20Guidance%20Document.pdf

a report that identifies the latest solutions for mitigating the impacts of land use practices on climate change and that provides best-practice guidance for project activities (pdf)
Added: Nov. 26, 2008 | Rate It

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