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Rainforest Agribusiness, Frontline Communities, and the Biofuels Boom

Date:
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Panel Discussion
Organizer/Author:
Kasha Ho
Location Details:
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission St. (near 24th St. BART)
San Francisco, CA

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is hosting a delegation of Indigenous and community leaders and small farmers from Brazil, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea to highlight stories of communities living on the frontline of the newest threat to the world’s tropical forests -- soy and palm oil plantations. U.S. agribusiness giants, ADM, Bunge, and Cargill, are driving the expansion of these massive monocrop plantations into some of the world’s last remaining rainforests, forcing communities off their lands, and intensifying climate change by clearing and burning rainforests. One of the greatest drivers for agribusiness expansion, also known as agrisprawl, is the global biofuels boom. RAN’s Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign is working to
defend forests, family farmers and our climate from this destruction. Join us in a city near you to hear directly from people living on the frontline and to find out how to join our campaign to stop global agrisprawl.
Added to the calendar on Thu, Nov 1, 2007 2:29PM
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