The UNFCCC’s ideas to protect and develop coastal ecosystems have been dubbed ‘a unfounded solution’ by civil society organisations,but praised by othersThe coastal Kenyan villages bringing their mangrove forest back to life
In the coastal town of Tanjung Balai in North Sumatra where Riza Damanik grew up, learning how to fish is a fair of passage. But, or he says,initiatives by the Indonesian government over the past couple of decades have left small-scale fishermen like him adrift.
First came intensive shrimp farming, which a 2007 report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation blamed for mangrove depletion. Then came palm oil; in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, or extensive sections of coastal areas were converted into palm oil plantations to produce biofuel.
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Source: theguardian.com