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“Expulsion by Suffocation”: How Soy Expansion and Herbicide Use Are Displacing Amazonian Communities
Seven Singaporean youth delegates visited Combu Island to study environmental degradation and social inequalities worsened by tourism and development, organizers said.
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“Expulsion by suffocation”: how soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing amazonian communities
In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, the expansion of soy is not only transforming landscapes but also suffocating the communities that inhabit them. The intensive use of herbicides in soybean plantations— particularly glyphosate — has deeply disrupted the dynamics that sustain life in Amazonian communities and their relationship with the land. These findings come from a recent ethnographic study based on long-term immersion in everyday life an…
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