Brazil’s attempt to strike a balance between free speech and regulation of online platforms has become politicized – complicating future legislation.
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Australia’s live export trade is controversial. Have you ever wondered how it perpetuates? New research shows it comes down to corporate power dynamics. Similar forces operate in Brazil and the US.
Containing and extinguishing mega blazes like the one that reached Jasper is an all-hands-on-deck affair that draws upon expertise from around the world.
The psychotropic allure of the ayahuasca plant for hundreds of thousands of non-Indigenous consciousness seekers is raising many concerns.
Brazil’s orange harvest has been badly damaged by a disease infecting trees and spoiling the fruit.
‘Flying rivers’ of moist air from the Amazon combined with a warming planet have the potential to produce more rain, say scientists.
Child-directed educational technology can deliver high quality education for millions of marginalised children worldwide.
Some European countries are turning to anti-populist coalitions to battle the rising tide of populism. Will it work?
Major African cocoa plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans.
Throughout If We Burn, Vincent Bevins shows that “movements that cannot speak for themselves will be spoken for”.
Federal Police arrested some of Bolsonaro’s closest aides and carried out search warrants against former ministers and high-ranked military officers. The allegation: plotting a coup.
The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.
Community-centred approaches to urban agriculture have been successful in various parts of the world.
A smuggling crackdown has threatened the livelihoods of the people who are just scraping by in this South American arbitrage economy.
Trees in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest depend heavily on primates for their survival, but agriculture and deforestation are threatening them both.
From the 1950s to the early 1970s the carnival was a place for queer expression and attracted performers from as far away as Brazil.
A longstanding territorial dispute could flare into open confrontation in South America.
The drought is expected to affect the region until mid-2024 at the earliest. Signs of its severity include the lowest water levels in the city of Manaus in 121 years.
As detailed in a June 2023 event in Grenoble, France, business schools hold partial responsibility for the longstanding behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs) in indigenous territories.
At the United Nations and elsewhere, the response by the US and Western Europe to events in Israel and Gaza have been out of step with that of governments in Africa, South America and Asia.
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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