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Concerns about food security worldwide are growing as rice prices have more than doubled in many countries over the last year and global rice stocks are the lowest for decades.
May 14, 2008
Communities in West Kalimantan, supported by national and international NGOs, have taken the unprecedented step of challenging the environmentally and socially damaging impacts of the world's largest palm oil company, using the World Bank Group's official complaints procedure.
May 14, 2008
The UK government and the European Union are pressing ahead with policies to increase agrofuel* use for energy - despite evidence of serious harm to the climate and communities - due to concerns about climate change, rising prices of fossil fuels and energy security.
May 14, 2008
ndonesia's government, as host to COP13, has been keen to portray itself as a committed guardian of the carbon stocks in the country's peatlands and forests, while conveying the message that it should be compensated for funds spent on doing so.
May 14, 2008
There are many strands to the ongoing international climate change debate. Here, we focus on three issues that have been particularly prominent in the exchanges between civil society and governments and between North and South: avoided deforestation or Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD); indigenous rights; and control over international climate change funding.
May 14, 2008
Another year, another set of record profits from West Papua's mineral resources.
May 14, 2008
This report is based on information from a field visit by DTE staff to Meratus in 2008, and from the South Kalimantan based NGO, LPMA
May 14, 2008
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