Sue Branford
4. Deforestation: size matters
In her the fourth post of the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the mounting evidence that the extent of deforestation matters: where it is greater it disrupts the natural water cycle, reducing rainfall and increasing the resulting dieback of trees.
3. Growth is promised, whatever the cost
In her third blog in the Amazon on the Brink series, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the sharpening political divisions which...
The Amazon: ‘Slow-seeing journalism’
Slow-seeing journalism is a different way of experiencing, writing about and reporting on the world. Marcos Colón, author of LAB book The Amazon in...
2. The ‘flying rivers’ could run dry
In the second of her Amazon on the Brink blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford looks at the climate science and relays the warning from veteran climatologist James Hanson about the dangers of a ‘super El Niño’, and the consequences for the rainforest. Fires, though often set deliberately, are now a greater danger than deforestation.
1. The road to destruction
In the first of a new series of blogs, LAB author and editor Sue Branford returns to the subject closest to her heart: the survival of the Amazon rainforest and the communities and peoples that live there – a matter of crucial importance not only for themselves, for Brazil and the other countries of the Amazon basin, but for the planet and the climatic and ecosystems on which human life depends.
Climate: Indigenous women emerge as leaders
At London Climate Action Week, Indigenous women, especially from Latin America, featured prominently as leaders of their communities and territories
Brazil’s landless: Pathways to Utopia
Sue Branford reviews Alex Ungrateeb Flynn's book Pathways to Utopia - Time and Transformation in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil.
Brazil: a journalism that legitimizes power
In an impassioned article, LAB author Marcos Colón denounces the double-standards afflicting the mainstream press in Brazil, prompt to condemn those who defend the Amazon, its rivers and people as radicals and vandals, while they hail the confidence, predictability and business-friendly character of projects to dredge rivers and construct massive ports for exporting soya.
Venezuela: the curse of plenty
LAB's Sue Branford witnessed the failure of successive Venezuelan governments to use the country's resource wealth wisely to invest in skills and diversify from dependency on a single commodity -- oil.
Venezuela: who’s next?
Following its action in removing Maduro, who will the Trump administration attack next? Colombia, Mexico, Cuba? US actions now follow the course outlined in its new National Security Strategy, crudely dubbed 'The Donroe Doctrine' by the man himself. Latin America risks being left isolated.
