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Vietnam’s coffee boom rooted in decades of deforestation: report
New research links decades of coffee expansion to widespread forest loss in Vietnam's Central Highlands, raising concerns over the crop's long-term resilience.
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals.
Manufacturing
Leather exempted from EU’s landmark deforestation law
Campaigners say the move weakens the EU's flagship anti-deforestation law by exempting a product linked to forest loss in key producer countries.
Small-scale farmers who underpin Thailand’s lucrative natural rubber industry are under pressure to prepare for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), due to take effect at the end of the year.
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