Caros colegas, Neste comeco de 2019, segundo ano da nossa rede cientifica, temos a grande satisfacao de anunciar o primeiro dossie tematico sobre a Amazonia, publicado ha poucos dias na revista Territorios e Fronteiras, com artigos escritos por membros da Rede Agroculturas e outros colegas com pesquisa na Amazonia. […]
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- December 27, 2018
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“Agribusiness is bad enough in the rest of Brazil, but in areas of agricultural frontier, as in the case of Southern Mato Grosso [Mato Grosso do Sul], it gives rise to even higher levels of speculation, dispossession of common land and wide-ranging brutality. Frontier-making creates favourable conditions for the arrival […]
- December 11, 2018
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Open invitation to the Roundtable Discussion: “Repercussions of the 2018 General Elections in Brazil: Focus on Agriculture, Environment and the Amazon”, which will take place at Cardiff University, 13 Dec. 2018 – 13:00 to 14:00 Venue: Sustainable Places Research Institute, 33 Park Place, Cardiff Speakers: Dr Daniela M. Figueiredo (Federal University of Mato Grosso […]
- December 7, 2018
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Research team: Daniela Maimoni de Figueiredo, Selma de Souza Nunes & Janielly Carvalho Camargo This innovative and engaged research project was developed during six months in a public school in the periphery of the Mato Grosso capital, Brazil (Várzea Grande city). It was applied the VESWH action-research method (Vegetation, Erosion, Solid […]
- December 5, 2018
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Journalist Sue Branford and social scientist Maurício Torres spent a month learning about Ferrogrão (Grainrail), one of the newest threats to the Brazilian Amazon – first meeting with government officials in Brasilia and then travelling along the proposed route, speaking to both sides in the heated debate over its construction. […]