Neocolonialism Embedded In The Eu Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR)
1. Introduction The European Union (EU) plays a historical and contemporary role in the expansion of resource extraction and exploitation at the expense of socio-ecological diversity in the production territories. Europe’s high demand for cheap food in particular can be traced back to the configuration of a hierarchy of food production, processing and consumption created […]
An Environmental Justice Approach To The Eu Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR)
1. Introduction Each year, the EU imports billions of euros worth of agricultural commodities from multiple countries around the world, in particular in the Global South, and uses a good part of them to become the largest exporter of food commodities in the world. The EU’s economic growth thus relies heavily on extraction processes at […]
The EUDR as a source of territorial shifts
1. Introduction The European Union Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR) is an EU regulation setting environmental and legality standards for products entering the EU market. It aims to reduce the EU’s impact on deforestation, forest degradation, and biodiversity loss by targeting seven high-risk agricultural commodities (soy, cattle, palm oil, wood, cocoa, coffee, and rubber). From a […]
The EU deforestation free-products regulation: a critical overview
1. Introduction In November 2021, the Commission proposed a new regulation to curb deforestation and forest degradation driven by the European Union (EU). In a bit more than a year of negotiations, in December 2022 the European Parliament and Council reached a preliminary political agreement on a text that – with some changes – then […]
Soybeans plantation and landscape change in the Tapajós Region, Pará State, Brazil
The Tapajós region followed high levels of deforestation following the pattern observed in other states of the Legal Amazon. T According to the Brazilian Institute of Spatial Research (INPE), between 2016 and 2020, deforestation has increased by 231% in the region. Such level encompasses dimensions of deforested land that has varied from approximately 46 thousand […]
Agroecological gardens of women at the Community Terra Preta dos Lúcios, Santareno Plateau, Amazon
Women, no matter their age, have been the bearers and guardians of social and biological diversity in the Santareno Plateau. Particularly in areas pressured by the expansion of soy plantations linked to high deforestation levels as well as to the intensive use of agrotoxins, they are the ones crafting and designing a territory based economy […]
Vídeos de Maria La Poeta
Maria Barreiro, also called “Maria la poeta”, is a local poet from Putumayo. In the 16 years she is doing poetry now, more than 130 poems, short stories and narratives reflect the memory of the land of the Piedemonte Andean- Amazonas, the social conflicts and a longing for peace. Here you can listen to some […]