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Huge ag investments by Africa’s richest man threaten expansion of illegal deforestation in Nigeria

17.07.2017 Secretive billionaire Aliko Dangote intends to invest nearly $5 billion in expanding oil palm, soy and sugarcane production in West Africa

Choice Cuts: how European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

05.07.2017 How European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

Ag drives deforestation in Atlantic Forests back to 2005 levels

28.06.2017 A 58% increase in deforestation rate in the Atlantic Forest with the majority of the 29,000 hectares deforested between 2015 and 2016 cleared illegally

EU deforestation conference considers action on Bad Ag

23.06.2017 The conference came in the wake of the European Parliament’s recent resolution on the issue, which supported strong measures

Illegal deforestation and the flawed focus on corporate voluntary actions

12.06.2017 Globally, the problem is getting worse, not better, and corporate zero deforestation commitments may actually be distracting attention from other actions that could have greater impacts

Narco cash laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America

16.05.2017 A new study comparing forest loss and cocaine busts supports the theory that drug money is being laundered into agribusiness

Illegal deforestation for avocado production in Mexico spreads as US relaxes import controls

03.04.2017 Mexican authorities revealed this week that pine forests have been illegally felled to make way for an avocado plantation in a nature reserve in the country’s Mexico state

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