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Project News
Devlin Kuyek on the ProSavana project2
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now…
PODCAST: Devlin Kuyek on the ProSavana project 1
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now…
Policy recommendations on industrial tree plantations
As a spin-off from an EJOLT report, we published a 2 page briefing paper on industrial tree plantations that sums up the core problem of…
EJOLT REPORT 3: An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South. Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles
As we write from the Rio+20 conference center, we see environmentalists and policymakers from all over the world gathering for the most important environmental conference…
EJOLT presents documentary to support the struggle of waste pickers
A battle is brewing in Delhi, India over access and control to garbage. For decades, informal wastepickers and recyclers have turned garbage into cash. They cost…
On a nuclear mission in Namibia
Radiation monitoring experts from France went on a mission to Namibia to work with activists and communities on uranium mining in their area. The objective…
General News
Cruelty and Impunity in the Amazon
By Felipe Milanez, from Maraba. Last Thursday, another chapter in the history of violence and impunity in the Amazon was written in Brazil. In a…
Victory in Lawsuit Appealon Rawa Tripa : A Jurisprudence for Environmental Law Enforcement in Indonesia
We received some good news from Indonesia, in relation to the industrial tree plantations report and briefing we recently published. The press release below raises…
Nature Kenya Campaign Saves Dakatcha Woodlands and Puts Jatropha in the dock
By Leah Temper A campaign by EJOLT Partner Nature Kenya and other EJOs has saved the Dakatcha Woodland Important Bird Area (IBA) from destruction from…
EJOLT partner OCMAL: cancel Conga mine project in Peru
EJOLT partner OCMAL (Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en América Latina) asks for definitive suspension of the Conga mining project in Cajamarca, Peru. OCMAL is a…
Opinion
The sinking shipping industry: dream or nightmare?
By Nick Meynen. Warren Buffet is bearish on the shipping industry. The Economist blames all sorts of green regulations for their troubled waters. But while the…
Industrial tree plantations in the global South for energy in Europe: a crazy idea?
By Winnie Overbeek. Some years ago, a Dutch consultant approached the World Rainforest Movement to give comments on an idea. On behalf of his government,…
BRICS meet for the scramble of Africa (the sequel)
By Nick Meynen. When in 2001 the term BRIC was coined to group emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India and China – nobody saw them as…
Victory for waste pickers
By Federico DemariaIn a landmark victory and possible precedent for waste pickers around the world, waste pickers in Bogota (Colombia) obtain official recognition and payment…
Which sustainability is discussed at the World Forests Summit?
By Winnie Overbeek. While the big players in the field of tree plantations gather in Sweden, EJOLT reports from the reality of their expansion in…
Italian company Tozzi green is grabbing land in Madagascar
Madagascar was in the international spotlight in 2009, after an attempted deal with South Korean company Daewoo with ambitions to lease half the country’s area…
Fight against the El Zapotillo dam saves Temaca
By Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos. For eight years, the inhabitants of Temacapulín, Acasico and Palmarejo in Jalisco, Mexico, have been resisting the disappearance of their town…
UN Summit on development in a country pillaged by landgrabbing
The United Nations meeting in Liberia on a new global development framework is taking place in a country pillaged by landgrabs. Silas Siakor explained in…
GMO potato fight sparks hot debate in Belgium
By Nick Meynen. On May 29, 2011, some 400 mothers with children, biological farmers, environmentalists and scientists gathered around a GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) potato field….
World Summit on sustainable Forest (-destruction)
March 5th-6th 2013 will see a variety of actors in the forest-destruction community gather in Stockholm (Sweden). The Economist invites them to discuss strategies for…
