Britain's favourite tipple faces big challenges over coming decades, writes Ann-Marie Brouder. A new report sets out the challenges and proposes sustainable solutions to keep the 'cup that cheers' on the nation's tables.
… Tea - a 'hero crop' for our times? Ann-Marie … Comment Food Farming Forests Corporations tea-plantation-watering.png Britain's … the 'cup that cheers' on the nation's tables. Tea is big business: three billion cups of it …
Mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are at risk from tea plantations that would obliterate the adjacent Kafuga Forest, a vital buffer zone for local people, writes Richard Sadler. Deprived of foods, herbs, medicines and clean water from the forest, human pressure on the gorillas would inevitably increase, and expose them to potentially lethal diseases.
… Uganda: Save Kafuga Forest and gorillas from tea plantations Richard Sadler | 27th January … Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are at risk from tea plantations that would obliterate the … forest for farming. A group of more than 250 tea growers, backed by district government …
India's tea capital, Assam, has been hit by devastating floods for the second time in three years, writes Sneha Krishnan. But the government has failed to address key environmental issues like deforestation and soil conservation, or involve local communities in developing solutions. So ever more fertile land is lost to erosion, and millions of the country's poorest people suffer.
… Forests morigaon-dist-300612-cut.jpg India's tea capital, Assam, has been hit by … and poor working conditions on local tea plantations, while armed conflicts between … even more unstable. Perfect conditions for tea - and flooding Assam is best known for its …
Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats that our wild habitats face today. But new research can help mitigate its effects and revive degraded landscapes.
… in Tamil Nadu, India. An undulating plateau, Valparai has over forty rainforest … (that make up a mere 4.5 percent of the plateau) embedded in plantations of tea (51 percent) and shade coffee (11 …
After Gezi Park, another battle for one of Istanbul's increasingly rare green spaces is raging, writes Nick Ashdown - and this time it's on the city's Asian side. Demonstrators are holding a 24-hour vigil on the edge of an 'illegal' construction site at Validebag Grove - despite having been repeatedly detained and attacked by police.
… spaces left in Istanbul. They're handing out tea and snacks from under their makeshift … stay of execution, police attacked them with teargas. "They're like an army" , … neighbourhood, the Municipality wants to tear out trees and build more housing and …
Turkey's Gezi Park protestors are finding common cause with Kurdish communities, writes Rosa Wild. Both are suffering from Erdogan's annihilation of land, forests, parks and cities in pursuit of economic growth. A new eco-democratic resistance is taking root.
… One small child stokes a fire where tea is constantly brewing, leads the dances … its heritage of resistance, and turn it instead into a commodity for wealthy urban Kurds. … peace redraws the fault lines of society: instead of pitting Kurd against Turk, it pits …
Coffee may be grown all around the tropics, writes Fiona Hesselden, but it originates in just one place: the 'coffee rainforests' of the Ethiopian highlands. We depend on the wild plants for new genes and varieties, yet the forests are falling fast to the advance of farmers. To preserve the forests and all their biodiversity, the original people of the forest must receive their just rewards.
… investor interest in commercial coffee and tea plantations, has seen agricultural land …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
… are also inhabited by many thousands of tea-planters, loggers, and squatters. … from Raiply" had been ferrying high-value teak timber from Mount Elgon forest. "And I … carbon value found in standing forests. Instead, the World Bank Carbon Fund's approach to …
The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions, writes Glen Barry. And that will mean solving, with equity and justice, the disease's root causes: rainforest loss, poverty, war and overpopulation.
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Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
… last 1,000 years.’ He moves on. I follow, steadying myself on low-slung vines. The forest … it begins to process plantation wood here instead of exporting all the raw materials … Chipman’s group myself,’ he says, as we drink tea in his dining room, which has a stunning …
The rights of nature and of indigenous communities are enshrined in Ecuador's constitution, writes Kevin Koenig. But down in the Amazon the government is going full speed ahead with oil extraction on indigenous territories whose owners are committed to keeping their forests and waters pollution-free. A mighty battle is brewing that looks certain to come to a head this year.
… Gerardo brought us to a towering ceibo tree, teaming with life. Gerardo explained the … as the 'Fart Plant', which you can drink as a tea to relieve gas, a sweet cane plant, and … and press conferences, and attacked with tear gas inside her other house in the jungle …
Conservationists search for Rufous-necked Hornbills in West Bengal, through rich forests threatened by unrest and development.
… a heavy rope right next to your head. Steady, if they’re flying by, grinding to a … in the afternoon and after a quick cup of tea, drove up to Lava in the quickly gathering … us up inside, experiences that threatened to tear at the fabric of our realities. Luckily, …
Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon?
… – or even sitting at that table himself. Instead, the maverick systems ecologist has tried … forestry restoration project on a Sri Lanka tea plantation, but for the most part his work …