deforestation

Advocacy group Instituto Socioambiental notes between January and October this year, more than 24,000 hectares of forest were cleared illegally within indigenous lands

The supermarket will provide financial incentives to encourage farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado forest to produce soy only on existing agricultural land

He told Bishops from across the region that they must focus on saving the rainforest and providing better services to its indigenous people

The University of Exeter claims the trees would also have the benefit of helping smallholders make a living

The Central American country has won the UN Environment Programme’s 2019 Champions of the Earth award

Meat and dairy production and consumption are driving an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation and deforestation

Agriculture and related land-use change generate one quarter of annual greenhouse gas emissions

The Global Resource Initiative (GRI) taskforce met to discuss how the supply chain of key commodities can be fully sustainable

The rate at which trees are being chopped down has sharply accelerated since right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro came into power

Greenpeace International says millions of trees have been cut down to set up plantations supplying some of the world’s leading food companies