Sentences with phrase «develop rubber plantations»

As a result, Fox says that Chinese investors have been able to move in and secure sometimes questionable deals that allow them to develop rubber plantations on lands once populated by leopards, monkeys and tigers.

A formative experience for Fragoso was the six years he spent developing a rubber plantation in the state of Bahia.

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Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

Greenpeace also claims that Sud - Cameroun Hevea, a company owned mostly by Singapore's GMG, is developing rubber and palm oil plantations that threaten the Dja Faunal Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the largest and best protected rainforests in Africa.