I visited — together with Nino Casciaro, RETE president, and, as a kind guide Chistiane Costa, director of the Food security sector of the Instituto Pólis — the Centro de Referencia de…
Author: lucafanelli
Sowing sustainability (Euterpe edulis palm)
Semeando sustentabilidade. A juçara e as comunidades quilombolas no Vale do Ribeira [Sowing sustentability. The juçara and the quilombola villages in the Ribeira Valley] presents, in a simple and pleasant way, some…
First National Meeting of Tourism in Quilombolas Villages
The I Encontro Nacional de Turismo em Comunidades Quilombolas [I National Meeting of Tourism in Quilombolas Villages] is happening in the Ribeira Valley city Registro, 250 km from S. Paulo, within the…
Workshop about Native Bees Breeding
Last weekend I attended in Cuiabá (Mato Grosso, Brazil) the “Technological Exchange Workshop about Native Bee Breeding, between producer communities, researchers and civil society organizations. Production and preservation systems and native bees…
Land management in Angola, Bolivia, Brazil and Mozambique
A concept note was submitted to the European Union, in answer to the call “Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development” (EuropeAid/129492/C/ACT/TPS). The project title is “Sustainable development of regions characterised by…
Maureen Bisilliat exposition in S. Paulo
If I had to choose three Maureen Bisilliat pictures, among the ones displayed in the exposition (organized by the Instituto Moreira Salles at the SESI’s Galeria de Artes, in S. Paulo, Brazil)…
Partnerships in the Lower Amazon region
From March the 14th to the 24th I spent some time in the Middle-Lower Amazon region, Pará, Brasil. With me, Rodolfo Canciani, of the Italian NGO Fratelli dell’Uomo. The aim of our…
Samba in the Bar do Cidão
In the informal Bar do Cidão we appreciated the samba of Valtinho and of his guests.
Conflict in the Renascer is intensifying and violence grows up
Attacks with firearms, physical aggressions and arson of the houses of the local people are recurrent. Since the beginning of the year, local people spread manifestos, denouncing what is happening and claiming…
Inhabitants of the Renascer Resex villages settle to prevent the exit of barges full of wood
Sunday, January 3, 2010, 12:52 AM – NewsNews published in the Instituto Socioambiental web site in December the 21st, 2009. Since November the 27th, inhabitants of the Renascer Resex villages are settling…