A teacher of the Federal University of Western Pará is heading toward the BR-163 highway in the eastern Brazilian Amazon region with the students of the Indigenous Citizenship course. However, the road — which crosses Indigenous territories — has been blocked by local communities, and no traffic is allowed to pass. Seeing people singing, dancing, and performing their tribal rituals makes you think we are at a cheerful festival. […]

Communities, Nature, and their role in supporting biodiversity. Images taken on a field visit to the Ruhango district. Around the world, biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. This isn’t just a crisis for ecosystems—it’s a crisis for people. Biodiversity supports food security, cultural identity, economic livelihoods, and climate resilience. Yet, the response to this crisis is too often shaped by top-down policies that overlook local communities lived experiences and values. The EU-funded PLANET4B project aims to explore how to [...]

Big agriculture and globalization have trimmed down the incredible variety of cultivated plants to a bare minimum. But all is not lost! PLANET4B’s Agrobiodiversity management case study explores how we might still preserve the variety of disappearing species and traditional varieties. […]