She hated the way the land all around had been taken over by tea plantations grown for export, when it could be far better used by families to feed themselves.
plantations for woodchip export markets, which increased from a relatively low base to over 800 000 ha by 2012. Figure 1 Plantation forest area in Australia, 1950-2011 ( Source : ABARES).
Jatropha tree plantations for agrofuel export sweep up deserts and farmland alike -- feeding foreign machines instead of local people.
The company owns about one-fifth of all the agricultural land in Bajo Aguán, more than 22,000 acres of well-groomed plantations that supply oil for export and for its snack foods, margarine and cooking oil business.
From the savannahs of west Africa to the rainforests of Congo, the plains of Tanzania and the wilderness of Ethiopia, governments are handing over huge tracts of fertile land to private companies aiming to convert biomass grown on large plantations into liquid fuels for export markets.
Although tropical rainforest soils are relatively infertile and degrade rapidly once the forest cover is stripped away, vast areas of the Amazon are being converted to cattle ranching and to large plantations growing soy and other crops for export, much of it bound for China.
The remaining farms or plantations are devoted to the raising of crops for export, such as sugarcane, citrus fruits, and bananas.
It had a sandalwood trade beginning in 1825; overexploitation caused almost total depletion of the trees by the end of the 19th century, but some small private plantations have now been established to grow sandalwood for export.
For existing wood plantations, growing demand in Asia, particularly in China and India, offers significant opportunities for export growth of round wood and woodchips from Australia and New Zealand.
For example, many Western development projects in Asia and Africa replace ecologically diverse (multispecies) indigenous forests forests that are managed by women and are integral to maintaining subsistence (not money-based) economies with monoculture eucalyptus and teak plantations that are managed by men and where trees are primarily a cash crop for export.
