Sam Cowie

Mar 28, 2024 | brasil.mongabay.com | Sam Cowie |Rodrigo Pedroso |Avener Prado |Rhett Butler

À medida que projetos de infraestrutura e plantações de soja fazem com que o valor da terra aumente na Amazônia brasileira, pequenos agricultores vendem suas propriedades e se mudam para fronteiras mais distantes, perpetuando um ciclo de deslocamento e desmatamento.

Mar 12, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sam Cowie |Rodrigo Pedroso |Avener Prado

Onésio Nascimento has worked the land his whole life, moving from one Brazilian farming frontier to the next. During the coronavirus pandemic, he sold 20 hectares (50 acres) of land in northwest Mato Grosso state and used the money to buy another 100 hectares further north in the Amazon, in south Roraima. Today, he grows cassava and bananas on his land, an hour’s drive down a bumpy dirt road, which turns to mud during the rainy season.

Dec 2, 2023 | bloomberglinea.com | Sam Cowie |Rodrigo Pedroso

ÚltimascotizacionesBloomberg — En su terreno cercano al río Amazonas, el señor Justino Lira cosecha unos frijoles verdes de aspecto pobre. Este año, la sequía ha destruido casi todos sus lotes de frijoles, repollo, maíz, tapioca y okra. Apenas algo sobrevivió. “Jamás había visto nada semejante”, afirma Lira, con 63 años.

Dec 1, 2023 | news.mongabay.com | Sam Cowie

In the face of threats from illegal mining and major infrastructure projects, the Munduruku people of the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory have for years performed annual “self-demarcation” expeditions to protect the land and press for official protection. The land is in the final stages of getting state protection, but previous right-wing administrations delayed demarcation.

Nov 30, 2023 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Rodrigo Pedroso |Sam Cowie

Justino Lira picked at anemic-looking green beans on his parcel of land near the Amazon River. The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"S2SK3YT1UM0W","_id":"0000018c-20f1-df28-a5cc-22f726d60000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">drought-bsp-bb-link> this year ruined almost all of his batches of beans, cabbage, corn, cassava and okra. Hardly anything survived. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Lira, 63.