Sentences with phrase «rubber plantations in»

Mostly Bs: The purist An aversion to toxins in your body, fear for rubber plantations in South - East Asia and a belief that sperm - have - rights - too is all well and good but it doesn't leave many options open to stopping babies.

In 1914, new rubber plantations in Asia and Africa supplanted Amazonian rubber.

«At one time, Henry Ford was investing in rubber plantations in South America,» he says.

Instead of maple syrup, i poured in hill honey sourced from my neighbour's rubber plantation in Kerala; the bananas were grown on our farm and the brown sugar was replaced with powdered jaggery (unrefined cane sugar)... i added some orange rind and left out the cinnamon...

His body was found at a rubber plantation in Okurekpo community after he was abducted by suspected gunmen sometime in march.

Fordlandia, a 2.5 million - acre rubber plantation in the Amazon.

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

A new $ 95 million sustainability bond has been announced to help finance a natural rubber plantation in Indonesia.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Feb. 28 / CSRwire / - The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) today announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond to help finance a sustainable natural rubber plantation on heavily degraded land in two provinces in Indonesia.

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.

Mono - cropping exposes the soil surface allowing faster transpiration rate and reducing moisture, in the context of rubber plantations the rubber tappers suffered most since there is a significant reduction of moisture there is a dramatic decrease in sap supply of rubber trees.»

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

GREL in a statement also dispelled reports that it has destroyed some cocoa farms in those regions to make way for rubber plantations.

The plantation experiment set in motion by the British was intended to help make the best use of the colony of Malaya's (as Malaysia was known under British rule) timber resources and was also instructive in the development of rubber plantations that were spreading across the region to fuel the booming new automobile industry.

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.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

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.

For example, at one of their sites in Malaysia, a forest was being cleared to establish a rubber plantation, and progress of the clearing and the resulting land changes could be mapped quickly and updated routinely.

Vietnam, 1953: Linh (Kate Nhung), a poor, orphaned woman, finds employment as a housemaid in a crumbling rubber plantation presided over by the emotionally fragile French officer Sebastien Laurent (Jean - Michel Richaud).

That's the job of the three leads in this deliciously humid love triangle, as rubber plantation manager Clark Gable is caught between randy hooker Jean Harlow (of course) and buttoned - up, married Mary Astor just as the rains begin to fall.

Red Dust (Warner Archive), the 1932 jungle melodrama starring Clark Gable as a rubber plantation foreman in East Asia and Jean Harlow as the street smart showgirl who takes a powder from «Say - gone» (as they call the future Vietnamese city of Saigon) and lands upriver in his primitive plantation manor, is as sexy, frank, and grown - up as pre-code cinema gets.

During the 1920s, Henry Ford bought land in Brazil's Amazon River basin, hoping to turn it into a rubber plantation that would supply his car business and create an idyllic community.

During the 1920s, Ford bought land in Brazil's Amazon River basin, hoping to turn it into a rubber plantation that would supply his car...

With this fund, investors can gain exposure to the some of the very conservative and strong Malaysian banks, rubber plantation companies and Genting, one of the top Malaysian companies with interests in casino operations among others.

You may opt to horseback ride through a rubber plantation, explore San Felipe fort, take the morning monkey kayak tour, relax in the thermal springs, or hike through the jungle - strewn trails in the Chocón - Machacas Natural Reserve area.

If you're not desperate for a beachfront spot, then try Hill House, found in a shaded rubber - tree plantation setting up a steep hill from Tha Khao beach.

Opt to visit the coastal town of Livingston by boat, go for a swim in a natural hot waterfall, take a sunrise kayak to visit groups of noisy howler monkeys, or take a horseback ride through the rubber plantations combined with a visit to the Shaman Tower.

Then jump in tricycle tuk - tuks to explore local communities and rural industries, including a rubber plantation.

Bicycling in crowded Bangkok, along wharfs where boats are built by hand, between plantations with rubber, palm and banana trees and along touristic beach resorts.

Trail: You can park your car or motorbike in the rubber plantation near the waterfall and take a 15 - minute walk.

Located on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging rubber tree plantation using natural materials.

It features the premiere of a new film Fordlandia (2014), shot in an abandoned city and rubber plantation built in the Amazon in the 1920s by Henry Ford.

In another, a blazing orange ceiling spans a plantation room in which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grovIn another, a blazing orange ceiling spans a plantation room in which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grovin which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grove.

And Marc Ona, the 2009 recipient from Gabon, is facing the possibility of prison for publicly speaking out on the linkage between environmental destruction and governmental corruption, particularly in land giveaways for oil palm and rubber plantations.

State - sponsored land grabs and repression of activists have increased sharply in Cambodia in recent months, as the country's elite courts investor demand for plantations to grow rubber, sugar and other export crops.

In southeast Asia, a dramatic collapse in the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioIn southeast Asia, a dramatic collapse in the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioin the price of palm oil (60 percent off its peak in March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioin March 2008) and rubber (down 54 percent from its high in July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioin July 2008) is causing a shake - out in the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioin the plantation sector, which has become one of the leading drivers of deforestation in the regioin the region.

Apparently, the case focused upon Mr. Ona having spoken publicly about the Gabon government's role in providing industry with land for palm oil and rubber plantations.

It compounds pre-existing environmental problems in the western coast of Ghana linked with mining related pollution and expansion of rubber plantation.

These gloves are made in a responsible fashion using rubber from FSC certified plantations.

The Sleep On Latex toppers are made with 100 % natural latex, sourced from rubber tree plantations in Sri Lanka, which is then processed into latex foam using the Dunlop process.