Small children work as slaves on the chocolate plantation.

All plantations require slaves and a colonial system of management.

And most analyses of satellite data sets don t distinguish between forest plantations and diverse forests, meaning that research dependent on satellites usually counts mature oil palm, rubber, acacia or other plantations as forest simply because from the a bird s eye view they look like forest.

It was astonishing. They were also producing mangroves in a plantation.

Like William Wordsworth's Solitary Reaper, the lady reaps the paddy alone.

At the time of independence, Portuguese owned plantations occupied 90 of the cultivated area.

South Carolina was the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.

In 1998 DeGraft Hanson was invited by the local historical society to talk about the Butler plantations on St Simon's Island, near to Hampton plantation, which is now a wealthy gated residential community.

In 1985, Indonesia had less than 2,500 square miles of palm oil plantations.

All told, desal plants can provide some 600 million cubic meters (785 million cubic yards) of water a year, and more are on the way.

FAO says it does not include oil palm plantations or fruit tree monocultures under its definition of forests, but it does include pulp and paper plantations as well as replanting efforts that usually depend on a single species.

Yuyun, who was a top student in her class, was found dead with her hands tied at a rubber plantation.

Incentivizing the transfer of productivity boosting knowledge among palm producers could make each hectare of plantation as productive as possible.

For instance, plantations in our region supply much of the world s palm oil, a key ingredient in food products and cosmetics.

For most of the 20 th century, Brazilian elites thought that they could get by on natural resources cattle ranches, coffee plantations, fruit juices, and soybean farms.

Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.

Another major issue plaguing the data today is whether monoculture plantations should be counted as forests.

And, like coal, peat stores massive amounts of carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when the land is burned, cleared, and drained to make way for plantations.

Rice paddies need to be constantly flooded, and, because they are often located on steep slopes, this leads to significant runoff of fertilizers and sediment.

Despite the passage of numerous land reform laws mandating the distribution of lands to farmers, many of the haciendas (plantations) in Negros have remained intact and in the hands of politically powerful family dynasties.

Fires associated with clearing land for oil palm plantations in the Indonesian province of Riau release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and spread health harming haze across the landscape.

Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?

IDE, the Israeli company that built Ashkelon, Hadera and Sorek, recently finished the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California, a close cousin of its Israel plants, and it has many more in the works.

Twitter user Juana Suarez complained of racism in the wake of the gold won by Caterine Ibarguen, the daughter of plantation workers from the coastal town of Apartado, who has become widely recognised as the best in her sport in the years since she first earned a podium finish with silver in London.

Butler threatened to prevent Fanny from seeing her daughters if she published accounts of what she had seen on Butler island, but she eventually published her memoir, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation, in 1863.