On 21 March, the International Day of Forests, 200 organizations have petitioned the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) stating that its forest definition dating back to 1948 is “misleading” and must be changed. According to the petition signatories, the FAO definition has allowed the plantations industry to hide the “devastating ecological and social impacts of large-scale monoculture tree plantations” behind a positive forest image.
International Women’s Day: Gender Justice and Feminist Emancipation Are Fundamental to Protect Forests
Photos by: Kapyanga Women Association and Zamsof Across forests, territories and rural communities in the Global South, women, in all their diversity, are sustaining life. They cultivate food, protect seeds, defend forests, and pass on ancestral knowledge that keeps...
