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Some key or interesting documents United Nations Agricultural Outlook 2007-2016. July 2007. Annual Assessment of agricultural markets by the OECD and FAO. Highlights in particular the increasing agricultural prices as a result to increased demand for biofeuls. Oil Palm and Other Commercial Tree Plantations, Monocropping: Impacts on Indigenous Peoples' Land Tenure and Resource Management Systems and Livelihoods. May 2007. The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UN PFII) has a mandate to discuss indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights. At its 6th session which took place in NewYork the issue of oil palm expansions were addressed. Sustainable Bioenergy: A Framework for Decision Makers. April 2007. United Nations Energy is the principle UN interagency mechanism in the field of energy involving the World Bank, FAO, UNEP, WHO etc. It's framework distiguishes clearly between using biomass for energy uses (eg cooking fuels in some developing countries) and biofuels to export to northern countries and the problems this may encounter. Biofuels and Commodity Markets: Palm Oil Focus. P. Thoenes, FAO, Interesting paper based on a presentation made at AgraInforma conference ?The Impact of biofuels on commodity Markets?, held in Brussels on 24-25 October 2006. The paper discusses the background to the expansion of palm oil and highlights the relation with expanding the use of oilseed rape for biodiesel in Europe and the increased demand for palm oil. Research What we know and what we should know - Towards a sustainable biomass strategy. Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, June 2007. Interesting discussion paper on the current debate which really questions the international trade in biofuels and the EU's target. Palm oil Promised Land: Palm oil and land aquistion in Indonesia. Implications for local communities and indigenous peoples. Sawitwatch. 2006. Ghosts on our own land: Oil palm smallholders in Indonesia and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Forest Peoples Programme and Sawit Watch. 2006 The ape for oil scandal. Friends of the Earth and orangutan conservation groups. September 2005.
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