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1. Family Agriculture

[Ongoing Initiatives]

• Light for a Better Life. Last updated on July, 2017.

[News]

• Solar lighting reaches the islands of Belém – see fieldwork. July, 2017.

[Articles]

• Challenges and opportunities for the business sector in the fight against poverty. The case of Brazil’s Amazon River estuary. By Maria José Barney and João Meirelles Filho. In: KIT Working Papers. Royal Tropical Institute. Amsterdam, Holand. June, 2008.

2. Coporate Social Responsibility

3. Vulnerable Groups

4. Biodiversity

[News]

• Event organized by Brazil’s Federal Prosecution Office discusses socio-environmental impacts of Barcarena, a industrial hub in the Amazon

• Trailer stimulates a debate about the Amazon’s native bees

[Articles]

• The Amazon, pollination and the Peabiru Institute – A quick view about the Amazon and its socialenvironmental challenges. November, 2015.

5. Low-impact Proteins for a Safe Planet

[Articles]

• Proteins of low socio-environmental impact: the next agenda for sustainability. By João Meirelles Filho and Mariana Buoro. June, 2017. 

• Specialty of the Day: Amazonian Beef Steak and climate change. By Maria Jose Barney e João Meirelles Filho. In: Nature TM Inc. Hague, Holand. July, 2011.

Scientific Work by Third Parties

• Community-Based Ecotourism in the Brazilian Amazon: The experience of the Institute Peabiru. By Ana Gabriela da Cruz Fontoura. In: DevISSues – Erasmus University. Rotterdam, Holand. June, 2012.
• What does social upgrading mean for small-scale producers? Family Farmers and Oil Palm Cultivation – A View of Possibilities and Constraints. By Wanêssa Marques Silva, University of Antwerp – Institute of Development Policy and Management.