Two reports to be launched today point out that increasing demand for land to grow food and fuel will, inevitably, lead to destruction of tropical forests. The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) estimates that only half of the extra land likely to be required by 2030 can be found without using areas of forest. A second companion report suggests that reform of land ownership and governance in developing countries, which could protect the rights of indigenous people and the forests in which they live, has made little progress. These bleak conclusions are supported by the Department for International Development whose minister, Gareth Thomas, will be speaking at the launch.
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