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 […]
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- 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. […]
- October 24, 2018
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OPINIÃO “Espectro do fascismo ronda a Amazônia” Para Bolsonaro, a Amazônia é apenas um lado não-desenvolvido e remoto do Brasil, que só conta em seus pronunciamentos como “lugar de índios, quilombolas e caboclos” ignorantes. Veja o artigo de Marcos A. Colon publicado pelo jornal Publico em 22 outubro 2018: […]
- October 11, 2018
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We are bringing the North American director, Mr Marcos Colon (based in Wisconsin, USA), to Cardiff and London to present and debate his highly prized documentary about the development and deforestation in the Amazon. Beyond Fordlândia (2017, 75 min) is an environmental and politico-economic account of Henry Ford’s controversial experience […]