Agribusiness in the Rainforest: Stories from Frontline Communities
Soy and palm oil plantations are expanding rapidly in countries like Paraguay, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. In addition to encroaching on important ecosystems like the Amazon rainforest, the Gran Chaco and the heart of Borneo, these crops are adversely affecting frontline communities, including small-scale family farmers and Indigenous peoples. Read more»
Growing Disaster: How Agribusiness Expansion into Rainforests is Threatening the Climate
Tropical rainforests are disappearing at a rate of 100,000 acres per day. That’s an area larger than the state of West Virginia. The expansion of industrial palm oil and soy plantations poses a major threat to the world’s largest intact rainforests—the Amazon and the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Read more»
Agribusiness Impacts on Indigenous Communities
The survival of Indigenous communities from the Amazon to the heart of Borneo is being threatened by the expansion of U.S. agribusinesses into the world’s rainforests. Read more»
People’s Rights vs. Agribusiness: the Case of Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty is the right of individuals, communities and countries to define their own food, agriculture, fishing, labor and land policies. These food and land policies are socially, ecologically, economically and culturally appropriate to the people who define them. Read more»
Hostile Harvest: U.S. Agribusinesses and Labor Rights Abuses
Massive U.S. agribusiness companies ADM, Bunge and Cargill depend on cheap labor for their soy and palm oil operations around the world. These companies, as well as their subsidiaries and their suppliers, engage in or are connected to slave labor, debt peonage systems, the exploitation of women, and the use of unsafe agrotoxins. Read more»
