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Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan-Amazon: Swine and poultry – Adding value to farm production

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Oct 2023

Livestock farming in the Andean Amazon and the rest of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2023

Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023
Aldenísio Pereira da Silva, a teacher of Indigenous education in the Tabalascada Indigenous Community.

In Roraima, Indigenous communities forge sustainable solutions amid threats

Amanda Magnani 19 Sep 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi/Daniel Camargos/Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Along the Via Auca, it is common to find patches of deforested land that will later be planted with agricultural or agroforestry crops.

Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 8 Aug 2023

Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 13 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo/O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
graffiti wall

Colombian chef spearheads a food-based bioeconomy in the Colombian Amazon

Ocean Malandra 29 Jun 2023

Agro giants buy grains from farmers fined for using Indigenous land in Brazil

André Campos and Naira Hofmeister from Repórter Brasil and Tatiana Merlino, João Peres, Leonardo Fuhrmann from O Joio e o Trigo 29 May 2023

Amazon Rainforest loss could reach new height in just 5 years, study says

Sarah Brown 11 May 2023

Logging permit threatens Quilombola bioeconomic ‘paradise’ in the Amazon

André Schröder 8 May 2023

Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project

Elizabeth Oliveira 7 Mar 2023
A white-lipped peccary.

Deforestation could pose disease threat to Amazon’s white-lipped peccaries

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2023

Bolivia has a soy deforestation problem. It’s worse than previously thought.

Maxwell Radwin 21 Feb 2023
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with his environmental and climate change minister, Marina Silva on his first day in office on Jan. 1.

Lula wants to mirror Amazon’s lessons in all biomes, but challenges await

Sarah Brown 16 Feb 2023

Violence in Brazil’s Amazon are also crimes against humanity, lawyers tell international court

Kimberley Brown 19 Jan 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Indigenous people.

From deforestation to restoration: Policy plots path to Amazon recovery

André Schröder 6 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of gold mining.

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2022

Alexandra Popescu 29 Dec 2022
cocoa beans

Amazon-produced cacao offers climate solutions

Miguel Pinheiro 15 Dec 2022
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows

Sarah Sax 30 Nov 2022

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