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 […]
The real gold of the Amazon
Also in the Putumayo, the conversion of natural ecosystems for the agricultural land use and mineral extraction is one of the principal motors of biodiversity loss, climate change and has severe repercussions on local lives, social fabrics and biocultural diversity. We had a knowledge exchange with women who are taking care of and defending the […]
