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Zimbabwe: 'Surrender Plantations'
2013-09-13 16:41:37| Sugar Industry News
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has ordered sugar cane growing giant Tongaat Hullet to immediately surrender over 6 000 hectares of cane plantations at Triangle that will be allocated to landless people across the province.The move to order the cessation of cane plantations came after an audit revealed that the company had for years deliberately under-declared the size of its fields at Hippo Valley and Triangle to Government.
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Illegal wildfires to clear land for palm plantations seen in Indonesia
2013-08-28 22:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: NASA has released a satellite photo it says shows widespread illegal slash-and-burn fires in Indonesia set deliberately to clear land for palm oil companies. While that kind of agricultural clearing technique has been used for centuries, the setting of such fires is now illegal in Indonesia, but plantation owners are commonly ignoring the law, environmentalists say. "Widespread, illegal burning to clear rainforests and peatlands for palm oil and pulp and paper plantation expansion is unfortunately...
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Africa: Desert Plantations Could Help Capture Carbon
2013-08-27 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Planting trees in coastal deserts could capture carbon dioxide, reduce harsh desert temperatures, boost rainfall, revitalise soils and produce cheap biofuels, say scientists. Large-scale plantations of the hardy jatropha tree, Jatropha curcas, could help sequester carbon dioxide through a process known as 'carbon farming', according to a study based on data gathered in Mexico and Oman that was published in Earth System Dynamics last month (31 July). Each hectare of the tree could soak up 17-25...
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Malaysia: Sarawak targets 1M ha of tree plantations by 2020
2013-06-23 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Sarawak, a state in Malaysian Borneo, aims to have 1 million hectares of industrial tree plantations by 2020 to offset declining timber production due to unsustainable forest management practices. According to the June bulletin from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Sarawak currently has 306,486 ha to tree plantations, meaning it needs to plant 90,000 hectares per year to meet its 2020 target. Currently 72 percent of the state's plantations consist of Acacia trees. Batai (12...
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Finding Optimism in Tree Plantations
2013-03-19 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: While timber harvested from natural tropical forests is expected to reach "peak production" in the coming decades, the area occupied by tree plantations to supply future wood demand is concurrently increasing. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), tree plantations expanded by about 5 million hectares each year from 2000 to 2010, and expansion of both large- and small-scale tree plantations is underway in many tropical countries. In many cases, tree plantations...
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