IPS / NRC HANDELSBLAD – An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources in Africa.
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Biofuels boom in Africa…
THE GUARDIAN – British firms have acquired more land in Africa for controversial biofuel plantations than companies from any other country.
Africa: Race on Biofuels
MONDIAAL NIEUWS – More than two million hectares. That is the area of Western-funded plantations for energy crops in Africa. Will the Africans also profit from it?
Discovering Tibet
FAMIGLIA CRISTIANA – A journey through the beauty and environmental devastation of the Tibetan plateau along the new paved trail that led the Olympic Torch from Beijing to Mount Everest
India: the Submerged People
FAMIGLIA CRISTIANA – Journey on the holy Narmada river where the Sardar Sarovar dam flooded the valley and forced the indigenous to leave their homeland, like other 4.000 dams did across India