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Ranching Doesn't Have to Destroy the Amazon Rainforest

In the News
Los Angeles Times
Robert Muggah

After decades of research, Brazil has led experiments to recuperate degraded rainforest and help ranchers produce more without toppling any more forest.

Amazon Rainforest logging
AP Photos
Climate and the Environment

Brazil's Indigenous Territory Bill Spells Trouble for the Amazon

In the News
Context
Robert Muggah

The controversial legislation would overrule ancestral land claims by native communities, which could increase development in the Amazon.

Brazilian Amazon
AP Photos
Climate and the Environment

Innovating Forward: Committing to Food and Agriculture

Podcast
Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

The Youth in Agriculture podcast examines new innovations required to improve the food system.

Abbie Doane-Simon, of Green City Growers, cultivates produce in a rooftop garden on the third-base side of Fenway Park in Boston.
AP Photos/Elise Amendola
Food and Agriculture

Partnering with Youth to Inspire Agricultural Innovation

Podcast
Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

The future of agricultural innovation is dependent on young people. How can we motivate them to get engaged?

A Bangladeshi farmer woman separates the husk from the grain during harvest at Saturia village, on the outskirts of Dhaka.
AP Photos/Pavel Rahman
Food and Agriculture

The Nexus between Collaboration and Agricultural Development

Podcast
Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

Collaboration across generations, communities, and political parties is pivotal to agricultural development and youth engagement.

Two young people examine a plant in a lab. Food and Agriculture

The Global Gold Rush Imperils the Brazilian Amazon

In the News
NPR
Robert Muggah

Economic instability has increased the price of gold as Brazilian President Lula da Silva attempts to crack down on illegal mining threating the Amazon.

Illegal Brazilian mining in the Amazon.
AP Photos
Climate and the Environment

Chicago and Illinois Should Lead the Way on the Blue Economy

In the News
Crain's Chicago Business
Alaina Harkness

With 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water at its doorstep, Chicago and the Midwest should use water security as a competitive advantage.

Chicago skyline behind Lake Michigan.
Hide Obara via Unsplash
Global Cities

Will Brazil Destroy the Amazon to Save the Climate?

In the News
Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Brazil’s mineral wealth could power the global energy transition, but mining is a very dirty business, writes Nonresident Fellow Robert Muggah.

Mining in Brazilian Amazon.
Reuters
Climate and the Environment

Can a New Regional Pact Protect the Amazon from Environmental Crime?

In the News
Mongabay
Robert Muggah

Police, prosecutors, money-laundering experts, and others convened in Brazil to tackle drug and environmental crimes that are growing in scale across the Amazon.

Amazon Rainforest
Crystal Mirallegro
Global Politics

To Stop Amazon Plunder, Brazil Must Change Hearts and Minds

In the News
The Washington Post
Robert Muggah

"No Brazilian leader has been so effusively pro-miner—or anti-Indigenous—as the former army captain and gold-prospecting hobbyist Bolsonaro,” writes Rob Muggah.

Road leading to Amazon rainforest area being mined.
Reuters
Climate and the Environment