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India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative.

Take away all synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and crop yields... stay roughly the same, at least in Andhra Pradesh. But bird populations shoot up. Pretty remarkable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025 Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...

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Dystopia UK: Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund - Craig Murray If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong t...

"This spaghetti tangle of ownership of RAF [Royal Air Force, UK] aircraft is surprising to those of us who naively believed that RAF military aircraft belonged to the RAF, and that the hundreds of billions of pounds the state lavishes on 'defence' was used to do things like buy military jets..."

Amanha 28 Maio no UnB !

Amanha 28 Maio no UnB !

Salvation Now - Boston Review Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

In the 1990s, beaten down by harsh political repression, the liberation theology school seemed to have run out of steam. But it never fully died. How could it? Its simple message—that God is on the side of the poor and marginalized—is one forever waiting to be retooled for shifting times.

Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

Was slow to this piece by Toscano and Bhandar but I think it captures something important about the shifting sands of American Empire which crystallises not only in its stance to Gaza and Ukraine but also Greenland and Canada proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

Really looking forward to reading this article on the role of racialised differentiation in the emergence of capitalism in England. Thank you Emma Cardwell!

Publicada reportagem sobre a BR-319 com apoio do projeto Defensores Ambientais Uma reportagem sobre a construção da BR-319, rodovia que liga os estados de Rondônia e Amazonas, produzida com apoio do projeto Defensores Ambientais,...

🕵A investigação jornalística produzida pelo jornalista Cley Medeiros foi publicada no @portalacritica.bsky.social. Ao longo do processo, o profissional teve incentivo financeiro, técnico e de segurança em campo da Abraji

🔗Confira a reportagem pelo link: mla.bs/76b3069c

Sad day: Amid recent pressure for oil exploration, the Brazilian government announced the auction of 68 blocks in the Legal Amazon—47 in the Foz do Amazonas. The Foz do Amazonas is the region where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean, on the coast of the Brazilian Amazon (Pará and Amapá).

Excited to read this

Black Marxism and the English working class by
Emma Cardwell in Race &Class journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ailton Krenak: “A COP30 na Amazônia já começou para os povos indígenas” Ensino a distância no Pará, com mais de 50 povos indígenas, pode ser fagulha a incendiar sonho do governo com COP30

A COP30 já começou para os povos indígenas da Amazônia! 🏹✊🏾 Em artigo para a @folha.com, Ailton Krenak reflete sobre a força dos indígenas do Pará, que ocupam a Seduc para denunciar o descaso com a educação indígena. 📲 Leia: x.gd/O9rJ4

Elon Musk Wants to Get Operational Control of the Treasury’s Payment System. This Could Not Possibly Be More Dangerous Until Further Notice: Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

It’s a coup.
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Colleagues,

A decade in the making, I’d like to share with you my new book entitled, 'For the Sake of Forests and God: Governing Life and Livelihood in the Philippine Uplands'.

From the Cornell University Press webpage: lnkd.in/ghyuxMKT

Now updated with the breaking news that Elon Musk's team has been granted full access to the Treasury Department's federal payment system.

Everything you need to know about ELN's war on Catatumbo Colombia has declared a state of emergency and deployed military forces amidst a guerilla war in the Catatumbo borderlands. What's behind the wave of violence?

Everything you need to know about ELN's war on Catatumbo

Colombia has declared a state of emergency and deployed military forces amidst a guerilla war in the borderlands. What's behind the wave of violence?

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YouTube video by Isaac Vivas Llano Grande Sin Contaminación (Documental)

Llano Grande Sin Contaminación - la lucha contra la incineradora de residuos tóxicos del petróleo en Quito www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4h...

An underground gold war in Colombia is ‘a ticking ecological time bomb’ Nearly 100 underground tunnels, running a combined length of more than 84 kilometers, or 52 miles, crisscross and plunge into the depths of the mountain that hosts the Zijin gold mine in Buriticá, nor...

An underground gold war in Colombia is 'a ticking ecológical time bomb'

The Zijjin mine, operated by a Chinese conglomerate in Buriticá, has become a subterranean battlefield, and the environmental results could be devastating

LATEST by me for Mongabay

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Brazil’s plans for a highway to climate chaos in the Amazon As Brazil prepares to host COP30 next year, its government is embarking on a plan at odds with its climate aims

“Lula and the Brazilian government may promote BR-319 as essential for regional development, but the project endangers at least half of the country’s remaining rainforest and puts more than 18,000 Indigenous people at risk”

#indigenous #Amazon #Brazil

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Decolonizing Environmentalism We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Conhecimento indígena é essencial para futuro sustentável Artigo na Science sintetiza conhecimento milenar indígena do Alto Rio Negro e suas contribuições para a conservação da Amazônia.

O artigo, publicado na Science, defende a integração entre saberes, considerando a contribuição das teorias e práticas de povos indígenas da Amazônia, há pelo menos 12 mil anos, para a conservação do meio ambiente.

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I love Macrodose, so it means a lot to have our new report on bringing agroecologcial food sovereignty to Britain featured on this week's episode. Give it a listen.

Check out our new special issue "Amazonia Against the Anthropocene" out today open access in Estudos Avançados www.scielo.br/j/ea/i/2024....

Conventional agriculture - meaning industrialised capitalist agriculture - is failing farmers, failing consumers, and destroying the environment. We need a radical alternative that puts food systems in our collective democratic control. www.in-abundance.org/reports/food...

Check out our new special issue "Amazonia Against the Anthropocene" out today open access in Estudos Avançados www.scielo.br/j/ea/i/2024....

YouTube video by Verso Books Climate Denial and Disaster Nationalism | Richard Seymour and Tad DeLay

A few weeks ago, Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) and I talked about our books Disaster Nationalism and Future of Denial at @versobooks.bsky.social London office. The interview is out now

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Forthcoming 2025 with @plutopress.bsky.social, written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @kmilb.bsky.social

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red If British farms are less competitive then food production will simply shift elsewhere.

I’ve written about the recent Labour budget and what it might mean for an agricultural green transition.

Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red

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