Tropical forests were cut down to expand the plantations.

More than 60 of workers in the tea gardens are women.

It's one of the tens of thousands of mom and pop grow ops in B.C.

But the idea that any monoculture plantation is a forest drives ecologists crazy.

What is not amusing is the end result the poppy eradication program achieved the opposite to what was intended.

Sustainable palm oil means it is sourced from haze free plantations.

Not surprisingly, the 2002 elections turned on the explosive coca eradication issue.

The Ashkelon plant, in 2005, provided 127 million cubic meters (166 million cubic yards) of water.

Worldwide, the equivalent of six additional Sorek plants are coming online every year.

His father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor who died when Jefferson was fourteen, never getting the chance to measure up to him as an adult.

Butler neglected to tell Fanny that his income came from cotton and rice plantations in Georgia.

The exponential growth of palm oil plantations is to a large degree an unintended consequence of economics, and food and energy policies elsewhere in the world.

Most of the small businesses, small factories, plantations still rely on cheap labor to make a hefty profit.

And the solution to the unemployment that came as a result going back to school. The motives to take such measures were the low productivity of sugarcane fields and the slump on sugar in the global market.

It is easier to vote to spend millions of dollars to eradicate poppy coca production in poor countries than confront addiction at home.

The latter are blamed on the slash and burn practice of farmers and the land clearing operations of palm oil plantations in Indonesia.

They claim that companies are even promoting the consideration of palm oil plantations as a reforestation activity, as well as the government incentives given to that crop.

DeGraft Hanson began researching the history of the Butler plantations, and found a list of the names of the people sold as slaves during the Weeping Time.

During the dry season, farmers and plantations routinely clear peat and rainforest in Indonesia by burning it, creating a toxic haze that blankets the wider region.

But the Union of Concerned Scientists, in its report Recipes for Success, notes that the increased profits that accompany improved yields can spur further expansion of plantations.

Indeed, helicopter gun ships and expensive crop replacement programs may provide TV friendly images that politicians love, but do nothing to lessen the demand for drugs.

Eliminating it will not only help farmers and the West as it tries to curtail heroin use, but also Afghanistan's infant government as it struggles to assert its national authority against the warlords.

IDE, the Israeli company that built Ashkelon, Hadera and Sorek, recently finished the Carlsbad desalination plant in Southern California, a close cousin of its Israel plants, and it has many more in the works.

That, at least, was the idea behind a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded poppy eradication program in Afghanistan. As in Colombia, however, the results were fleeting.

Ollanta Humala opposes compulsory and mass coca eradication, claiming that he would industrialize and export the product to keep it from falling into drug dealers hands.

Haze pollution is a recurring problem in Southeast Asia, mainly caused by deforestation and burning of peat lands in western Indonesia to make way for the expansion of palm oil plantations.

When forests are cleared to make way for oil palm plantations, the area is usually burned, and most of Riau s massive fires burn on peat swampy layers of partially decayed vegetation that spreads up to 60 feet deep beneath most of the province s forests.

On our way to the Port of Veracruz, we stopped at Yanga and saw the agricultural fields full of caña and corn surrounding the area, also rich in coffee plantations the tropical weather invites you to be outside, under the sun's open arms.