Narrative
The valley of misery bleeds lithium: Who wins; what’s lost?
Data Journalism
The path Brazilian soy takes to Americans’ mouths
Narrative
Lessons learned at a Brazilian dictator’s fishing school
Narrative
Não sei fazer queijo sem rezar: Traditional cheese from the Serra da Canastra
Reporting
Lula’s support for the American frackers setting up shop in Brazil
Reporting
MST’s bulletin on agroecology, Marxism, and Brazilian poetry
Reporting
Sustainable agriculture on former plantations in Minas Gerais
Interview
What’s it like growing up on a Marxist land occupation (MST)
Themes:
– Agriculture: agribusiness, agroecology, traditional methods
– Commodities: petroleum, soy, lithium
– The United States in South America—dollars and other influence
Questions:
Who will pay for the green energy transition? Will they pay in dollars? Reis? Pesos? Rivers? Forests?
How do we split the profits of extracting the stuff of modern life: soy (cheap beef and cooking oils), lithium and gold (car batteries and consumer electronics), coffee, wood pulp, iron, etc.? Who bears the consequences?
How do U.S. dollars finance harmful activities like deforestation in the Amazon, predatory oil extraction—fracking, for instance, and the emission of carbon abroad?
What does an equitable and sustainable food system look like? What does the future of food mean for how we eat?
Should we welcome the sort of industrialization that sterilizes the food system of its famers, fishermen, and cooks? Is there another way?
How can we build an sustainable food system that respects how we eat—our traditions, our simple pleasures?
Which ways of life are made impossible as we heat, poison, and deplete our rivers, forests, and seas?