PugJesusAnd no one will mourn!
Беларуская ВікіпедыяВыява дня: Плантацыі сізалю ў Танзаніі.
#Tanzania #wikipedia #photography #plantations #agriculture #sisal
Joseph Lim 
Fake coconut water factories raided in #SamutSongkhram
"local farmers sought #government action aft #coconut prices fell & exports to #China declined.. the problems were linked to #Chinese nationals allegedly investing #illegally.. Chinese-owned #plantations had grown to dominate te industry, allowing investors to influence prices.. certain production facilities were making fake #coconutwater.🤦♂️ They warned tt te products could affect #consumer #health & damage confidence"
https://thethaiger.com/news/central-thailand/fake-coconut-water-factories-raided-in-samut-songkhram
"local farmers sought #government action aft #coconut prices fell & exports to #China declined.. the problems were linked to #Chinese nationals allegedly investing #illegally.. Chinese-owned #plantations had grown to dominate te industry, allowing investors to influence prices.. certain production facilities were making fake #coconutwater.🤦♂️ They warned tt te products could affect #consumer #health & damage confidence"
https://thethaiger.com/news/central-thailand/fake-coconut-water-factories-raided-in-samut-songkhram
BellingenNSWA deluge of timber: From vanishing forests to deadly disasters
"Mysterious sea of logs hit ‘powerless communities’ the hardest."
"From vanishing forests to deadly disasters Houses were swept away and large logs came with the flood, crashing into homes and carrying them off. We don’t exactly know where the logs came from … there is a palm oil plantation upstream, it’s several thousand hectares.”
"And those who suffer most are not the perpetrators or the investors. It’s the powerless communities,” Muhadi Bukhari said. Another Indonesian environmental NGO, Wahli, described the disaster not just as “nature’s fury” but one that was “amplified by decades of deforestation”. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/sumatra-floods-disaster-reforestation-climate/106443342
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #floods #plantations
Whole villages in Sumatra erased overnight — and still living in the wreckage
Months after floods killed more than a thousand people across Sumatra, residents are still digging their way out of the wreckage. While survivors are eager to rebuild, many just can’t shake the fear that the next catastrophe is just around the corner.
IHC📖 The book 'Plantation Knowledge' includes a chapter by Marta Macedo that 'explores the deep entanglements established between São Tomé and the Congo through projects of cocoa plantations over the course of two decades, from the early 1890s to the early 1910s.'
🔓 The book is available via #OpenAccess: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/17059
#Histodons #Colonialism #Belgium #Portugal #Congo #SãoToméEPríncipe #Plantations #Cocoa #AgriculturalHistory
WINGS_radio
The NT: In them old cotton fields back home
"Incoming Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly has apologised over his trove of divisive past social media posts, a day before he is formally sworn-in."
"Mr Connolly's past commentary has been labelled variously as sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic and bigoted by various groups including the Northern Land Council (NLC), the Country Women's Association NT and the Aboriginal Peak Organisations of the NT (APONT)." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/david-connolly-apologises-over-social-media-controversy/106389356
King Charles’s official representative in the Northern Territory >>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/116135022082276542
#NT #Australia #cotton #monoculture #plantations #sexism #racism #homophobia #transphobia #sorry #DevelopingNation
Image: The 'wide open spaces' of the NT populated with cotton. As far as the eye can see a "third-world crop" or a critical commodity for developing nations.
Chris MRKL
A yearning for the idyllic forest scene and cellulose factories
When they want to ‘get away from it all’ and ‘go for a drive’ through nature, the idyllic forest scene, they are in denial that the romantic craving for the bush turns out to be industrial plantations.
“Nature ... is a planned product of the forestry industry, a purely wisely placed storehouse for cellulose production, which is readily apparent.”
- The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, 1930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_Qualities
#forests #forestryCorporation #forestry #CelluloseFactories #LoggingIndustry #landscapes #TheBush #plantations #monoculture #RawMaterials #extractivism #biodiversity #nature #book #literature
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