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Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
Inequality within developing countries continues to rise.
For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.
Some Amazon deforestation is caused by recent policy, but there are also long-term issues.
We need to guarantee that the benefits of sciences are shared between scientists and the general public, without restriction. Peru and Brazil are leading the way.
Enabling wildlife to journey across farmlands not only benefits conservation, but also people. It means bees can improve crop pollination, and seed-dispersing birds can help restore ecosystems.
Plus, what the study of 700-year old garbage is revealing about who lived in Islamic Andalusia. Listen to episode 20 of The Conversation Weekly.
We know surprisingly little about the millions of animals, plants and birds that live in the Amazon – here’s how we can understand them better.
When students feel their classrooms are supportive and fair, they behave better, a survey in Brazil found.
Plus, why Brazilian women who lived through Zika are avoiding getting pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Listen to episode 18 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The pandemic’s not over yet, but these world leaders have already cemented their place in history for failing to effectively combat the deadly coronavirus. Some of them didn’t even really try.
Attempts to wage war on drugs in developing countries which don’t take into account the needs of local people are doomed to fail. Here’s why.
Officials in Brazil recently asked women to avoid pregnancy, citing heightened risk to them and newborns. But births were already dropping; a new study attributes it to the trauma of Zika.
Large-scale tree-planting projects are politically popular and media-friendly, but without effective planning and long-term management, they can do more harm than good.
The Brazilian president has engineered the conditions for the virus to run rampant through the country while he pursues his own agenda.
Because Brazil’s economic prosperity in the last two decades is increasingly linked to the Amazon’s good health, restoring the country’s economy is a critical first step toward ending deforestation.
Findings show that income transfer programmes must operate in deliberate coordination with ancillary social service institutions to deliver the maximum benefits for women’s empowerment.
Although Brazil is formally a democracy, the practice of torture is ongoing, especially for Black Brazilians. Soccer creates an illusion of fairness is which is increasingly hard to sustain.
By looking at the evolving history of the open government data movement, scientists can see both limitations to current approaches and identify ways to move forward from them.
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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PhD Candidate in Law, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Florida International University
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
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Senior Economist, IMD World Competitiveness Center, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Reader in Ecology and Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Modern Latin America History, University of Denver
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill