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LIVING GREEN - Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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Good morning,
A recent article on news.yahoo.com pointed out a topic that
that we have discussed more than once in this publication.
Growing demand for food and fuel is threatening the world's
forests.
The world's forests will be gobbled up by an escalating
demand for fuel and food unless steps are taken to hand
the people who live in them greater rights.
Scroll down for some sobering excerpts from this article.
Thanks for reading,
Your Living Green editor
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The US-based Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an
international coalition of forest governance and conser-
vation groups, warned that widespread deforestation would
make climate change more severe. It would also push the
billion or so people dependent on forests further into
poverty and trigger conflicts.
The world will need a minimum of 515 million more hectares
(1.27 billion acres) by 2030, in order to grow food, bio-
energy and wood products, the RRI concluded. This is almost
twice the amount of available land and equal to an area 12
times the size of Germany.
"Arguably we are on the verge of a last great global land
grab," said RRI co-ordinator Andy White.
"Unless steps are taken, traditional forest owners, and
the forests themselves, will be the big losers.
"It will mean more deforestation, more conflict, more
carbon emissions, more climate change and less prosperity
for everyone."
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