by Luiza Melo | 26/10/2023 | News
Lays Ushirobira* The Amazonian countries are not the only ones that can take action to put an end to land grabbing, one of the main causes of deforestation in the Amazon. The international community also has an important role to play in combating the illegal...
by Sara Leal | 11/10/2023 | News
Food security – which is the right to access enough quality food to live a healthy life – is at great risk with the advance of land grabbing in the Amazon. And this is not just a risk for Brazil, but for the whole world. Currently, the illegal appropriation of public...
by Mariana Guths | 28/09/2023 | News
Lays Ushirobira* To combat land grabbing, one of the main causes of deforestation in the Amazon, it is essential to coordinate actions between governments at all levels, the productive sector and civil society. “One doesn’t have to be in or near the Amazon to help,”...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 14/09/2023 | News
By Lays Ushirobira Land grabbing, one of the main causes of deforestation in the Amazon, has been advancing by leaps and bounds in recent years and the main instrument used to illegally appropriate public land is the fraudulent use of the Rural Environmental Registry...
by Lucas Itaborahy | 03/08/2023 | Amazoniar (EN), News
Lays Ushirobira* Amazoniar – an initiative of IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) to promote a global dialogue about the Amazon – launched this Thursday (08/03) a new series of videos, this time focusing on the main cause of deforestation in Brazil: land...
by Sara Leal | 18/05/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute) launches today (5/18) the mini-documentary Voices from the South: for a more inclusive EU-Mercosur Agreement. The film, made within the scope of the IPAM’s Amazoniar project in partnership with Fern and ISA...
by Sara Leal | 11/05/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* In March this year, the European proposal for a side letter to strengthen environmental commitments of the Chapter on Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur was leaked. To make a...
by WP IPAM | 23/02/2023 | News
By Sara Leal* “Who is in charge of the negotiations needs to understand that participation of civil society is important, especially the participation of the peoples of the Amazon”, says Julio Xapuri from CNS (National Council of Extractive Populations), about...
by WP IPAM | 16/02/2023 | News
By Lays Ushirobira* When one looks at the exponential growth of deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon in recent years, it is hard to believe that the country was once a reference for environmental conservation. But the fact is that Brazil was one of the pioneers...
