Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign

One of the fastest growing threats to the world’s tropical forests

Cinema Politica London
Thursday October 9, 2008
Screening begins 13h30
Venue: Landon Library - Wortley Village

USA / 2007 / 11 minutes

The Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign is challenging one of the fastest growing threats to the world’s tropical forests: the rapid expansion of industrial agriculture. Fueled in part by the growing demand for biofuels, U.S. agribusiness giants ADM, Bunge and Cargill are establishing soy and palm oil operations in some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests. Soy has become a major contributor to deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest and its surrounding wooded savanna, the Cerrado, while palm oil plantations are expanding at a rate of 2.5 million acres per year into the tropical forests of Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

Followed by: Smash the Medium, Liberate the Message , Volume 1

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