Seminar "Forestry and plantations in Southeast Asia: local and global perspectives"

Southeast Asia, which has a total of around 15 percent of the world's tropical rainforest reserves, is in the list of "sinful states" in deforestation, after Latin America and Africa. The exploitation of tropical rainforest for the production of tropical precious woods is directly related to the subsequent conversion of the areas into plantations dedicated to industrial agriculture like copra or oil palms, rubber, tea, coffee, cashew nuts or fast-growing timber.

This seminar explores the local and global dimension of forestry and plantation in Southeast Asia, considering its socio-cultural impact but also the threat it constitutes to biodiversity – with the total number of species rapidly decreasing – and to climate change.

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