<![CDATA[rainforest agriculture news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable 'urban' society]]> Science. Conducting archeological excavations and aerial imagery across a number of sites in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, a team of researchers led by Michael Heckenberger found evidence of a grid-like pattern of 150-acre towns and smaller villages, connected by complex road networks and arranged around large plazas where public rituals would take place. The authors argue that the discoveries indicate parts of the Amazon supported "urban" societies based around agriculture, forest management, and fish farming.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-heckenberger.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-heckenberger.html <![CDATA[Palm oil producers in Indonesia reject moratorium on forest destruction]]> Jakarta Post.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-palm_oil.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0828-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Malaysia targets Africa and the Amazon for oil palm expansion]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-malaysia_palm_oil.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0825-malaysia_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Biofuel production in Brazil may not hurt Amazon, food supply]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-brazil.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0821-brazil.html <![CDATA[Brazil to establish oil palm plantations on degraded Amazon rainforest lands]]> Folha de S. Paulo.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0820-brazil_palm_oil.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0820-brazil_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html <![CDATA[Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-malua_new_forests.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0813-malua_new_forests.html <![CDATA[Climate change to hurt Brazil's farm exports by 2020]]> Financial Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-brazil_ag.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-brazil_ag.html <![CDATA[Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-malua_new_forests.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-malua_new_forests.html <![CDATA[Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html <![CDATA[Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html <![CDATA[Future threats to the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0801-amazon.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0801-amazon.html <![CDATA[Loggers, palm oil firms eye remote rainforests of Papua for development]]> Wall Street Journal.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0726-wsj_papua.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0726-wsj_papua.html <![CDATA[Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests]]> Environmental Research Letters. Analyzing the carbon debt for biofuel crops grown in ecosystems around the world, Holly Gibbs and colleagues report that "while expansion of biofuels into productive tropical ecosystems will always lead to net carbon emissions for decades to centuries... [expansion] into degraded or already cultivated land will provide almost immediate carbon savings." The results suggest that under the right conditions, biofuels could be part of the effort to reduce humanity's carbon footprint.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html <![CDATA[Amazon deforestation forecast for 2008 revised downward]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-amazon.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-amazon.html <![CDATA[Orangutans persist in islands amid a sea of oil palm plantations]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-orangs_oil_palm.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-orangs_oil_palm.html <![CDATA[Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-cagan_interview.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-cagan_interview.html <![CDATA[Biofuels, food demand may doom tropical forests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-forests.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-forests.html <![CDATA[Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0709-amazon_palm_oil.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0709-amazon_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Britain urges 'cautious approach' on biofuels]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-biofuels.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-biofuels.html <![CDATA[Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-brazil.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-brazil.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0623-soy_amazon.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0623-soy_amazon.html <![CDATA[Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon]]> http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2010 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2010 <![CDATA[Amazon beef producer creates eco-certified meat product with help of scientists]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0605-amazon_beef.html Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0605-amazon_beef.html <![CDATA[Brazil's new environmental minister blames ranchers for surge in Amazon deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0603-brazil.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0603-brazil.html <![CDATA[Papua New Guinea's rainforests disappearing faster than thought]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0602-png.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0602-png.html <![CDATA[Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-interview_laporte.html Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-interview_laporte.html <![CDATA[Cocaine use is destroying the Amazon rainforest, says new campaign]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0526-cocaine.html Mon, 26 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0526-cocaine.html <![CDATA[Will consumers pay 10% premium for sustainable palm oil?]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-palm_oil.html Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Half of oil palm expansion in Malaysia, Indonesia occurs at expense of forests]]> conservation Letters. Analyzing data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Lian Pin Koh and David S. Wilcove of Princeton University found that 55-59 percent of oil palm expansion in Malaysia and at least 56 percent of that in Indonesia occurred at the expense of forests. Given that oil palm plantations are biologically impoverished relative to primary and secondary forests, the researchers recommend restricting future expansion to pre-existing cropland and degraded habitats.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0520-palm_oil.html Tue, 20 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0520-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Tropical deforestation is 'one of the worst crises since we came out of our caves']]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-hance_myers.html <![CDATA[Brazil will forge its own path for developing the Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-amazon.html Thu, 15 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0515-amazon.html <![CDATA[Convicted nun-killer freed in the Brazilian Amazon]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-stang_murder.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-stang_murder.html <![CDATA[After acquittal, fear of open season on activists in the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil_ap.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil_ap.html <![CDATA[Brazil's environmental minister resigns after losing Amazon fight]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil.html Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-brazil.html <![CDATA[Indonesian palm oil firms pledge to stop clearing rainforests]]> The Jakarta Post. The move is a response to growing criticism that oil palm expansion is destroying biologically-rich rainforests and contributing to global warming.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[China to push for overseas acquisition of farmland to improve food security]]> Financial Times. Under a proposal by the Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese companies will be encouraged to acquire farmland overseas. The initiative would make foreign land acquisition by Chinese agricultural firms a central government policy.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-china.html <![CDATA[46% of Brazil's energy comes from renewable sources]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-brazil.html Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-brazil.html <![CDATA[Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-palm_oil.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[High palm oil prices kill the biodiesel market for Asia]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-biodiesel.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-biodiesel.html <![CDATA[Unilever calls for ban on rainforest destruction for palm oil]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html Thu, 01 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0501-unilever.html <![CDATA[Unilever admits it can't trace origin of palm oil used in its products]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-greenpeace.html Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0421-greenpeace.html <![CDATA[Borneo's pygmy elephants are an alien species]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-borneo_elephants.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-borneo_elephants.html <![CDATA[Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-palm_oil_sustainability.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0417-palm_oil_sustainability.html <![CDATA[Amazon farming technique may fight global warming]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0411-terra_preta.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0411-terra_preta.html <![CDATA[Asia Pulp & Paper destroying rare Sumatra forest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-sumatra_road.html <![CDATA[Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0227-nepstad_amazon.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0227-nepstad_amazon.html