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What happens when land becomes a financial asset? 

How corporations, pension funds, and other financial actors are driving land dispossession in Brazil Many people in cities across Europe and North America might be familiar with real estate speculation...

From hand to eye to mouth to ear

Amongst the deaf of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula Fingertips pressed together in a twisting motion to indicate “lemon”; an energetic motion of both wrists to say “bread”, suggestive of how flatbread...

Forest and faith in Mentawai

How Indigenous life and spirituality remain bound to forests undergoing ecological and political pressure in Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands In this extensively reported feature for Ekuatorial, journalist Dewantoro documents the lives of...

Vanishing words, vanishing worlds

How climate change erodes languages alongside landscapes In a report we came across in Agência Pública, journalist Julia Webster Ayuso (republished from Noema Magazine) investigates how climate change is not only devastating...

The Wisdom of the Semende

How a land stewardship custom honouring eldest daughters has allowed a Sumatran indigenous group to flourish over three hundred years South of the shiny skyscrapers of Singapore and west of...

The Voice of the Mountains

Community radio is a lifeline for Q’eqchi speakers in Guatemala – and a target for the powerful In most parts of the world, the hegemonic role of radio as the...

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