Over 4 million hectares of tree cover—an area equivalent to the size of Switzerland—may have been cleared to make space for rubber plantations since the 1990s. Out of all the rubber planted, 1 million ...

TOKYO — With a goal of doubling natural rubber harvest volumes by 2035, Bridgestone Corp. is planning to invest $26.7 million in the coming five to six years in its natural rubber (NR) plantations in ...

In Ivory Coast, only five percent of women own agricultural land. But this is changing: for many women, owning their own farms of rubber trees has become a way to achieve financial freedom. Ivorian ...

Mea (second from left) and other female rubber growers visiting a rubber tree nursery for the establishment of their new plantations in Bongouanou. Since 2009, around 2,500 women have bought rubber ...

Returning the biomass from logging to the soil and planting legume cover crops enable rapid restoration of the main soil functions, just 18 months after clear-cutting of an aging rubber plantation. A ...

A massive rubber plantation operated by rubber supply group Halcyon Agri through its subsidiary Sudcam has come under fire in recent years for what many say are unsustainable environmental practices, ...

On a warm January day in 1924, W.E.B. Du Bois looked out over an abandoned plantation, a forest of more than 200,000 rubber trees, in neat rows, on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The ...

KOTTAYAM: On Manimalakkunnu, a tranquil hill just a few kilometers away from Ponkunnam town in Kanjirappally, efforts are afoot to clear the underbrush in a spr ...