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Publications and Reports - Pulp and paper

This site contains documents prepared by FPP, information from our partners, and other materials of relevance to indigenous peoples, forest-dependent communities and forests.

Documents, listed in date order, can be downloaded free, purchased online, or printed copies can be ordered from julia@forestpeoples.org.

All our publications are free to indigenous peoples' organisations.
Southern NGOs are entitled to a 50% discount.
 

 


Publication
Format
Indonesia
Pulp and paper giant, APRIL, is seeking to impose its expansion plans on the Kampar Peninsula, Riau, Sumatra

APRIL's Indonesian national subsidiary, PT Riau Andolan Pulp and Paper, is seeking to develop a ring of new Acacia plantations on community lands on the peat soils of the Kampar Peninsula. This series of letters and briefings between local and international NGOs and APRIL summarise the escalating crisis in the area.
September 2009
html
Indonesia
Social conflict and environmental disaster
A report on Asia Pulp and Paper's operations in Sumatra, Indonesia

By Rivani Noor and Rully Syumanda - discusses the social, economic and environmental impacts of APP's operations. Chapter one gives an overview of Indonesia's forestry industry development paradigm, which led to the industrial tree plantation policy (or Hutan Tanaman Industri [HTI]) to satisfy the pulp and paper industry's demand for raw materials. Chapter two gives an overview of APP and its operations in Sumatra. Chapter three discusses the environmental impacts of APP's operations in the provinces of Riau and Jambi in Sumatra. Chapter four describes the social and economic impacts of APP's operations, as well as the impacts on local communities. Chapter five discusses the rights of workers employed by APP. The report ends with a summary of the impacts caused by APP's operations.
August 2006
pdf
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Brazil
Indigenous people of Brazil and activists block roads of the Procter & Gamble transnational company in Germany

Transnational companies steal indigenous lands in Brazil to produce paper handkerchiefs
Press release from CIMI (Brazil) and Robin Wood (Germany)
4 May 2006
html
Uruguay
Greenwash
Critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay

Ricardo Carrere
April 2006
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Maquillaje verde
Análisis crítico de la certificación de monocultivos de árboles en Uruguay por el FSC

Ricardo Carrere
Marzo de 2006
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Cambodia
The death of the Forest:
A Report on Wuzhishan's and Green Rich's Plantation activities in Cambodia

Edited by Hersilia Fonseca
December 2005
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Chile
The Economic and Social Context of Monoculture Tree Plantations in Chile:
The Case of the Commune of Lumaco, Araucania region

by René Montalba Navarro, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez and José Araya Cornejo
(Translated into English) January 2006
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Contexto económico y social de las plantaciones forestales en Chile:
El caso de la Comuna de Lumaco, región de la Araucanía

por René Montalba Navarro, Noelia Carrasco Henríquez and José Araya Cornejo
Agosto de 2005
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Pulp Mills:
From monocultures to industrial pollution

Edited by Hersilia Fonseca
April 2005
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Fábricas de Celulosa
Del monocultivo a la contaminación industrial

Edición Hersilia Fonseca
2005
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Fábricas de Celulose
Da monocultura à poluição industrial

Edição Hersilia Fonseca
2005
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Indonesia
The Pulp Invasion:
the international pulp and paper industry in the Mekong Region

Chris Lang
2002
Tree Plantations: Impacts and Struggles
Edited by WRM
1999
Plantaciones Forestales: Impactos y luchas
WRM
1999
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Europe and the world's forests
The underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation in Europe

FPP and FERN
1999
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Pulping the South:
Industrial Tree Plantations and the World Paper Economy

Ricardo Carrere and Larry Lohmann
1996

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