The Songs of Trees
We’re all — trees, humans, insects, birds, bacteria — pluralities. Life is embodied network. These living networks are not places of omnibenevolent Oneness. Instead, they are where ecological and evolutionary tensions between cooperation and conflict are negotiated and resolved. These struggles often result not in the evolution of stronger, more disconnected selves but in the dissolution of the self into relationship.
Brazil: The Land of the Future?
It was a moment of hope when I was growing up in Brazil. Although the country has always suffered from corruption and violence, the 1988 constitution was born out of a democratic process. Since 1964 Brazil had been under a military dictatorship, a ‘regime of exception’, in which individual and social rights were restricted and even ignored. The country was governed in the interests of the ruling dictatorship justified by the need to maintain national security. But a desire for change grew among the population who fought for a new constitution. Independent of the political controversies, the Federal Constitution of 1988 secured the fundamental human rights of all Brazilians.
Framing REDD+ in the brazilian national media: How discourses evolved amid global negotiation uncertainties
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Peter H. May, Rachel Carmenta, Bruno Calixto, Maria Brockhaus & Monica Di Gregorio. Climatic Change p.1-14 2017.
Let’s not miss the forest for the trees: A reply to Pinto et al
Maria Fernanda Gebara, Arun Agrawal. Forests, 8(7), 230 2017.
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Norway cuts Amazon Fund!
United States bans fresh meat imports from Brazil!
Zero Waste Project Healers Forum
An interview with Mrs Gebara a social scientist on the Zero Waste Project 2017. Dedicated to cleaning up waste within the amazon forest beginning with the village of the Yawanawa people, a beautiful, tribe from the amazonian region of Brazil, Acre. Discussing the importance of the survival of the forest and the people of the […]
REDD+ Testimonials
Maria Fernanda Gebara, consultant for CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+, talks about her experience and opinions of REDD+.
The Yawanawa People and the Zero Waste Project
Maria Fernanda Gebara a girl who tries to support the Yawanawá people to create the first zero waste community in the Amazon Forest!
To (m)eat or not to (m)eat: What is at steak?
Brazil has recently emerged as one of the world’s primary sources of meat, with expanding cattle ranches and intensified swine and chicken operations. Since 1990 beef production in Brazil has more than doubled (104% increase) and the country is now the world’s second largest meat producer (after the United States) and is tied with India as primary exporter. Hong Kong, China, Russia, Egypt, United States and the United Kingdom are Brazil’s principal meat trading partners. Ranchers expect that Brazil will soon outstrip the United States in production. But what is “at steak”?
Can REDD+ help Brazil roll back rising deforestation rates?
Role of REDD+ in stemming deforestation since 2004 is unclear—as is its potential for reversing the recent upward trend.
