The Oilforest Plan: Photos/Links

Resource Page: Photos and Websites of Related Projects, Organizations and Publications

Links to more info on related subjects:

• Palm Oil + Oil Palms & Other Oil-Producing Plants

  • UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Report on Tropical Palms by Dr. Dennis Johnson (a member of The Oilforest Plan consulting team)

  • UN FAO Report on Palm Oil Production (old, but still useful, from the Côte d'Ivoire)

  • Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

  • Palm Oil Facts (American Palm Oil Council)

  • Spectrum Organic Palm Oil

  • Unilever switching to Allanblackia nuts in Ghana

  • Organic palm oil production in Ghana

  • Costa Rican palm oil cooperative revitalizes abandoned banana plantation

  • WWF Slams Oil Palm Plantation In Borneo (ill-planned, destructive strategies like this one can give palm oil a bad name)

  • Article about Red Palm Oil from AJFAND -the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, & Development

  • 50 Species of potential biofuel plants identified in Indonesia

  • Jatropha holds great promise for rural India's environment and economy

• Biodiesel

  • Biodiesel: General information from U.S. Dept. of Energy

  • Biodiesel magazine

  • Biodiesel car rental in Hawaii

  • BiodieselNow.com

  • 2002 German biodiesel report (PDF file)

  • News Release on President Bush's May 2005 visit to biodiesel plant in Virginia

  • Here's the most recent example of a state or nation that requires the use of biodiesel (Illinois, USA, August 2005)

  • Former President Clinton endorses biodiesel for catastrophe relief.

  • Biodiesel sales booming: Up 25% in past 3 months.

  • U.S. Biodiesel sales in 2005 triple those of 2004

  • New Technology Under Development to Produce Biodiesel Faster & Cheaper

  • Use of coconut oil as biofuel in South Pacific

  • New bacterial-based biodiesel technology developed

  • Castor bean biodiesel in Jamaica

• WTO Ruling + EU/ACP Banana Trading Protocols + Banana Info

  • UNCTAD info on EU/ACP Banana trading protocols

  • More background of Lomé Convention & EU/ACP cooperation

  • BBC article on August 1, 2005 WTO ruling

  • Trade Law Center for Southern Africa article on August 1, 2005 WTO ruling

  • Int'l Labour Organization paper on importance of bananas to Caribbean employment

  • Many ACP banana economies troubled even before WTO ruling

  • ACP designation applies to these 70 states who are parties to the Lome Convention: Angola*, Antigua & Barbuda*, Bahamas, Barbados*, Belize*, Benin*, Botswana*, Burkina Faso*, Burundi*, Cameroon*, Cape Verde, Central African Republic*, Chad*, Comoros, Congo*, Cote d'Ivoire*, Djibouti, Dominica*, Dominican Republic*, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji*, Gabon*, Gambia*, Ghana*, Grenada*, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau*, Guyana*, Haiti*, Jamaica*, Kenya*, Kiribati, Lesotho*, Liberia, Madagascar*, Malawi*, Mali*, Mauritania*, Mauritius*, Mozambique*, Namibia*, Niger*, Nigeria*, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda*, Saint Kitts & Nevis*, Saint Lucia*, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines*, Western Samoa, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal*, Seychelles, Sierra Leone*, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname*, Swaziland*, Tanzania*, Togo*, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago*, Tuvalu, Uganda*, Vanuatu, Zaire*, Zambia* & Zimbabwe*. Asterisk indicates GATT contracting party status. ACP countries benefit from free access to the European market without the necessity of reciprocity.

Photo Gallery: Click on photo to see larger image.

	Allanblackia seed collectors Tree provides shade for cocoa. (Ghana) Photo: W. D. Hawthorne
	Allanblackia seed collectors (Seed Initiative, Nigeria)
	Allanblackia Tree (IUCN)
	Sunset over oil palms
	Oil palm seedlings (will start producing fruit in 30-36 months) (Malawi)
	African Oil Palms intercropped with bananas (Elaeis guineensis)
	African Oil Palms intercropped with sesame (might be appropriate while oil palms immature)
	African Oil Palms intercropped with cotton (not recommended)
	American Oil Palm (Elaeis oleifera)
	African Oil Palm Fruit Bunches Photo: Kron Aken
	African Oil Palm Fruit Photo: Dave Pregon
	Kekchi Maya harvesting heart of Cohune palm (Belize) Photo: Jean Philippe Soulé
	Eating heart of Cohune palm (not a very sustainable usage) (Belize) Photo: Jean Philippe Soulé
	Building a shelter w/Cohune leaves (very sustainable use: most mature palms produce about 10 new leaves annually) (Belize) Photo: Jean Philippe Soulé
	Cohune Palm (Attalea cohune) One of the hardiest and most beautiful of palms: Can grow to 100 feet, with 35-foot-long leaves. Range: Southern Mexico and northern Central America.
	Cohune Palm by River (Belize)
	Cohune Fruit on Tree (Belize)

To learn more about The Oilforest Plan, restorative development, and integrated revitalization:

• Email Storm Cunningham (storm@resolutionfund.com) or call him at 202-204-3040 (Alexandria, Virginia, USA) if you have any questions, or to inquire about becoming one of our two Pilot Nations, which will save you 50% on the entire workshop series.

• Subscribe to the free publications of Revitalization Institute, the alliance for community renewal and natural resource restoration. Learn more at www.RevitalizationInstitute.org

• Read The Restoration Economy (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, November 2002) by Storm Cunningham. You can read the Introduction, Preface, and Table of Contents free of charge online at www.RestorationEconomy.com,and can purchase it through any bookseller.