2024-07-02
This century’s environmental crisis is directly connected to the agribusiness model based on large rural properties and single-commodity crops.
2024-07-23
The "National Plan Planting Trees, Producing Healthy Food" was launched at the beginning of 2020, as a decisive action to project “the MST, popular agrarian reform, and agroecology as central axes in the formulation of alternatives to the environmental crisis”, in words of one its coordinators.
2024-09-24
The fires are not just a natural disaster but a symptom of a larger issue. The advance of agribusiness, supported by public policies and lack of regulation, have enabled the destruction of forests to make way for soybean plantations, cattle ranches, and other agricultural activities.
2024-11-20
In Brazil, the month of November became known as “Black Awareness Month”, based on “Black Awareness Day” (November 20), which from 2024 will become a national holiday in the country. The concept of “environmental racism” is recovered in this context, where issues of class and race are related to the biggest victims of climate change.
2024-11-27
In this article indigenous activists Claire Charlo and Shyrlene Huni Kui from Brazil, discuss global challenges faced by Indigenous communities and their critical role in conservation.
2025-07-23
Countries in the Global South, which include a range of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, face similar, complex, and multifaceted urban challenges involving a combination of social, economic, environmental, and political factors. Social and popular mobilizations are increasingly focusing on forms of cooperation outside of state control, reclaiming urban resources and the city as a common good.
2025-12-17
Brazil COP 30 made progress on fossil fuel phase-out and just transition but was criticized for low indigenous representation. Outside the “Blue Zone,” the People’s Summit gathered 1,100 organizations for Global South rights.