Plantations

Indonesia and some African countries have established teak plantations, although the tree is not native there.

Labourers on plantations often face gruelling hours, low pay, and no job security.

Indonesia has made permanent a 2011 moratorium on logging and land-clearing for oil palm plantations, which had been a major driver of deforestation.

Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834.

Algeria needs to irrigate its large plantations in the south of the country.

Algeria needs a lot of water to irrigate its large plantations in the high plateaus and the south of the country.

In eastern Zimbabwe, years of neglect have left many plantations that once produced avocados, macadamia nuts, coffee and timber in a pitiful state.

Algeria needs to develop huge plantations in the desert.