Last November as many of my colleagues and comrades headed to the Brazilian city of Belem at the mouth of the Amazon to fight for climate justice at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – UNCOP30 – I spent a week in Brazil’s Cerrado region, in a little-trafficked corner of Bahia state. NotContinue reading “Scandal and Strife in the Kingdom of Soy: A Week in the Brazilian Cerrado “
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How Land Speculation Drives Environmental and Human Rights Violations in Brazil’s Cerrado
[Note: Based on my work with Friends of the Earth, where I/we have been publishing and promoting research reports by the Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, I was recently invited to write this short analysis for the Washington Brazil Office, “an independent institution which specializes in thinking about Brazil and supporting actions thatContinue reading “How Land Speculation Drives Environmental and Human Rights Violations in Brazil’s Cerrado”
The Watering Hole :: Jeff Conant 