Bruce Parry on tree-bark trips, deforestation and lessons learnt from tribal living
… of the journey. We looked at cocaine, oil, soya, ranching, logging and illegal … gunpoint was by far the most shocking thing. Soya and cattle are making people rich. I love …
Land theft, agribusiness and violence pose an existential threat to Brazil's Guarani people, writes Lewis Evans. They maintain a powerful resolve to regain their historic lands, and even have the law on their side - but the tribe will need international support to prevail against murderous ranchers and farmers, corrupt politicians and a paralysed legal system.
… is turned over to profit. Vast quantities of soya, sugar cane, and other cash crops are … journalists are on the side of ranchers and soya barons who despise the Guarani and would …
Amidst the turmoil of the presidential impeachment, writes Jan Rocha, right wing members of Brazil's Congress are set to pass new laws that would build new roads across the Amazon, open up indigenous reserves to industrial exploitation, and create a surge in carbon emissions from burning forests.
… bill's rapporteur is Senator Blairo Maggi , a soya magnate, who has cleared thousands of … bill's rapporteur is Senator Blairo Maggi, a soya magnate, who has cleared thousands of …
Guarani man Semião Vilhalva was murdered by ranchers' gunmen last weekend after his community reoccupied parts of their ancestral land from ranchers. Thousands of Guarani Indians holding on to tiny patches of their ancestral land are living in constant fear of forcible eviction.
… decades ago and now occupied by ranches and soya, corn and sugar cane plantations. …
COP22 has revealed signs of real momentum toward an effective role for tropical forests in achieving a low carbon future, writes Tony Juniper. Now for the hard bit - connecting with realities on the ground to make it happen. This will mean working with indigenous and other forest communities to support and reward their conservation efforts, while harnessing large-scale international carbon finance.
… making these connections, so are paper and soya producers. Integrated action These kinds …
The Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's government acts to secure their legal rights to land, security and to remain undisturbed by outsiders, writes Lewis Evans. The decree that would achieve this vital goal has been sitting on the Minister of Justice's desk since 2013. Let's make sure he signs it soon, before it's too late.
… destroy the forests to grow maize, sugar and soya, ranchers create fenced-off grasslands …
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils, writes Benjamin Ramm. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
… so they may be treated as a commodity, like soya or timber. But this ought to tell us that …
In the thick of the Olympic frenzy, one voice that was systematically excluded from mainstream narratives is that of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, writes Lewis Evans, who have fought to survive through centuries of dehumanisation, theft and genocide. And now they face a fresh attack as a proposed constitutional change, PEC 215, threatens a new round of indigenous land theft.
… stolen to make way for ranching and intensive soya bean and sugarcane cultivation, many of …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
… 'Imagine a crop more versatile than the soya bean, the cotton plant and the Douglas …