Check out this article at AGRO É FOGO by Diana Aguiar (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and CASAS member) and Mauricio Torres.

From the infamous “Day of Fire” in August 2019 – when rural producers orchestrated a joint attack with fire against the forest – to the fires covering the sky of São Paulo with thick clouds of smoke in September 2020, the last two years have been marred by environmental devastation in Brazil’s Amazon, Pantanal, and Cerrado regions. While images of scorched wildlife and vast landscapes in flames do and should evoke our indignation, the conflictive and criminal dynamics behind the forest fires, as well as the fact that fire is constantly used as a tool for territorial control, are often neglected. …

Link: https://en.agroefogo.org.br/dossier/deforestation-as-an-instrument-of-land-grabbing/

Carol Hernández

Carol Hernandez holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Portland State University, U.S., and is a professor/researcher at the University Program of Bioethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her areas of interest focus on agriculture and climate change, seed sovereignty, and indigenous social movements.