Brazil: organic cotton farmers lead the way
Organic cotton production lifts resettled and Quilombola communities out of poverty in Brazil, but there are challenges to keeping the trade sustainable in the long term.
What Donald Trump’s possible re-election could mean for the Amazon and...
As the world watches the United States gear up for another presidential election, the potential re-election of Donald Trump raises questions not only about the future of American democracy but also about the fate of global environmental policies.
Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil
Documentary film: We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola Communities in Brazil (62”, 2024)Directors: Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities...
Painful truths from Rio de Janeiro and London
The content of the book is painful but also full of hope. It aims to better understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in cities, bringing to light the stories of many women on the receiving end as victims and survivors and the ways in which women challenge violence through resistance and creative practices as agents.
The Amazon: journey to the centre of the fire
Photojournalist Edmar Barros travelled through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon, Amacro, on the border with Acre and Rondônia, to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought.
The oligarchy in mining is bad for all of us –...
In the second of two articles, mining engineer Laurence Morris describes how the oligarchy of the 'Big Five' mining companies operates and the negative consequences of their monopoly of power, influence and resources.
El Salvador: the Song of the Poor
Review of exceptional collection of diary pieces and writing by catholic priest and missionary Tommy Greenan, who lived and worked in Chalatenango, El Salvador, following the teachings of Oscar Romero
Argentina: Indigenous media threatened by Milei’s policies
Some have interrupted operations because of reasons predating the new president, but Milei's measures have exacerbated their situation
La Voz Indígena (The Indigenous Voice), a...
When São Paulo became a battlefield
The now-forgotten Tenentes rebellion in São Paulo in 1924 caused widespread destruction, killed many people, and paved the way for Getulio Vargas' reforms in the 1930s and, later, for the dictatorship.
Digital writing in the time of Corona
A new project, ‘Archiving Real-Time Literary Responses to the Covid-19 in Latin America’, is housed at the University of Birmingham. aims to document some of this literary production in this exceptional period of global history. It will make a body of viral literature in Latin America available through open access for future researchers and the wider public before it is lost.