Tractor-trailer truckslin e up along a red and muddy earthen road. Large vinyl tarpaulins secured by ropes cover the open-topped hoppers of each one. Truck drivers hang out and prepare simple meals using stoves and kitchen utensils contained in a compact box built into the side of the truck cab. It’s early March, still the middle of a lush and highly predictable rainy season. Th e trucks wait for their turn and then enter a large modern compound with a football fi eld–sized building where they are loaded with recently harvested and dried soybeans and weighed.
Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon: from budgeting to climate change mitigation
Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon: from budgeting to climate change mitigation
Despite the obvious and proven importance of Indigenous Lands (ILs) to mitigate climate change effects, funds allocated by the government for the management and development in ILs still fall very short of the necessary level.