Certification of plantations and revision of standards

In the case of FSC, some of the plantation certificates issued by the scheme (6 million hectares of plantations and 17 million hectares of mixed plantation and natural forest) have been criticised mainly in relation to social impacts.

Tropical forests were cut down to expand the plantations.

More than 60 of workers in the tea gardens are women.

and a visit to its vast sugarcane fields will afford moments of rare interest.

You got no more manners than a field hand.

It's one of the tens of thousands of mom and pop grow ops in B.C.

In the past, Myanmar apos s strategy had been focused on the destruction of poppy fields.

But the idea that any monoculture plantation is a forest drives ecologists crazy.

The history of Thomas Sutpen mirrors the rise and fall of Southern plantation culture.

The water needs of biofuel plantations can be substantial.

We have also destroyed many illicit plantations in the Qadaref region of the Sudan.

What is not amusing is the end result the poppy eradication program achieved the opposite to what was intended.

Sustainable palm oil means it is sourced from haze free plantations.

The dam also deprived farmers of the critical annual floods, which formerly re fertilised the plantations.

They depended on cheap labor for their sugar plantations in Hawaii for example.

Let's say the productivity of biofuel plantations is 1,200 liters of biofuel per hectare per year.

Not surprisingly, the 2002 elections turned on the explosive coca eradication issue.

The Ashkelon plant, in 2005, provided 127 million cubic meters (166 million cubic yards) of water.

Worldwide, the equivalent of six additional Sorek plants are coming online every year.

His father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who died when Jefferson was fourteen, never getting the chance to measure up to him as an adult.

Most notable were the Champaran movement against the Indigo plantation and the 1942 Quit India Movement.

Overview In 1856, Washington was born a slave in Virginia to a woman named Jane.

Within the parish, nearly one hundred plantations were actively manufacturing sugar and rum for export to Britain.

The eradication of illicit cultivation should be offset by the introduction of substitute crops and follow up support.

Butler neglected to tell Fanny that his income came from cotton and rice plantations in Georgia.

The exponential growth of palm oil plantations is to a large degree an unintended consequence of economics, and food and energy policies elsewhere in the world.

Most of the small businesses, small factories, plantations still rely on cheap labor to make a hefty profit.

Uh, we don't want renewables in our backyard, but, um, please could we put them in yours instead?

The Monitoring Group further stated that there had been information of marihuana plantations in the Juba Valley region of Somalia.

The dam also provides water for irrigation of sugarcane and other crops in the lower Cuanza valley.

The Unit is vigorously pursuing its work of eliminating illicit plantations of marijuana and they are being given every support by the affected communities.

The length of the road doesn't matter, because the longer the road, the more biofuel plantation.

And the solution to the unemployment that came as a result going back to school. The motives to take such measures were the low productivity of sugarcane fields and the slump on sugar in the global market.

Within five years the business had become so successful that they purchased land in the Canaries to be cultivated as banana plantations.

This encouraged FSC to start a full review of its policies and standards for plantations in September 2004.

Most of the projects aimed to increase access to water and food production and to conservation of acacia trees.

UNMIL also assists government institutions in their efforts to regulate issues of ownership, land tenure, management and functioning in respect of rubber and timber plantations.

It's one of the tens of thousands of mom and pop grow ops in B.C. which ensure that over five percent of the province's GDP is accounted for by this trade.

70. The anti drug policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran was targeted on the eradication of illicit poppy cultivation in the region and combating illicit drug trafficking.

It is easier to vote to spend millions of dollars to eradicate poppy coca production in poor countries than confront addiction at home.

The latter are blamed on the slash and burn practice of farmers and the land clearing operations of palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

The techniques developed by certification standards might consequently be used in order to monitor compliance of such sequestration forests or plantations with the Kyoto Protocol.

5. About 80 per cent of agricultural production, including an estimated 80 per cent of cashew nut plantations, have been lost or severely damaged.

They claim that companies are even promoting the consideration of palm oil plantations as a reforestation activity, as well as the government incentives given to that crop.