Nature as a political actor
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Elephants use unique names, and moths listen to plant stress. These phenomena reinforce the idea that nature should be recognized as a political actor
22/05/2025
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Elephants use unique names, and moths listen to plant stress. These phenomena reinforce the idea that nature should be recognized as a political actor
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Considerations on the recently released book by José Eli da Veiga
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: A significant portion of the American economic boom is generated by disease. And what propagates and perpetuates the disease is the meticulous effort to spread the addiction on a large scale.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The agri-food system must urgently be governed much more by the logic of sufficiency than by the crazy obsession with increasing production at any cost
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: We are removing materials from nature at an explosive rate, which does not allow for their regeneration and which is compromising the most important ecosystem services on which we depend.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Just as it led the most important agricultural transformation in the tropical world in the 20th century, Brazil can be a leader in the ecological transformation of the global agri-food system
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The fight against inequalities lies at the heart of achieving a society capable of preventing the large-scale destruction of the foundations that support life itself
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Ending deforestation is just the starting point for reducing agri-food emissions
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Diversity will be at the heart of the transformation of the global agri-food system
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: A system that relies on the systematic torture of animals also has serious consequences for human health and environmental tissues
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & ALESANDRA MATTE: Economic activities tend to be tracked, given the need to accelerate the fight against the erosion of ecosystem services on which life on the planet depends
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & JULIANA TÂNGARI: Zeroing deforestation is essential, but it does not eliminate the threats posed by the global agrifood system to human health, animal welfare and ecosystem services
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Commentary on the recently published book by José Eli da Veiga
By BRUNO VELLO, RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & MARCELO DE MEDEIROS: Brazil and the world want policies that lead to a drastic and rapid reduction in deforestation
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The elite of our armed corporation acted as if the fall of the Berlin Wall meant nothing to its operating strategy and the basic values that guide it.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The contrast between eco-efficiency and sobriety is well expressed in the link between production standards and diets
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The economic nature of food cannot hide the right to food
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
It is not just deforestation, but livestock activity itself that is and will be increasingly at the epicenter of contemporary climate discussions
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
We live in an ecological, social and democratic crisis
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
70% of the calories in the top ten global agricultural products go to uses other than feeding people
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Elephants use unique names, and moths listen to plant stress. These phenomena reinforce the idea that nature should be recognized as a political actor
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Considerations on the recently released book by José Eli da Veiga
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: A significant portion of the American economic boom is generated by disease. And what propagates and perpetuates the disease is the meticulous effort to spread the addiction on a large scale.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The agri-food system must urgently be governed much more by the logic of sufficiency than by the crazy obsession with increasing production at any cost
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: We are removing materials from nature at an explosive rate, which does not allow for their regeneration and which is compromising the most important ecosystem services on which we depend.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Just as it led the most important agricultural transformation in the tropical world in the 20th century, Brazil can be a leader in the ecological transformation of the global agri-food system
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: The fight against inequalities lies at the heart of achieving a society capable of preventing the large-scale destruction of the foundations that support life itself
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Ending deforestation is just the starting point for reducing agri-food emissions
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Diversity will be at the heart of the transformation of the global agri-food system
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: A system that relies on the systematic torture of animals also has serious consequences for human health and environmental tissues
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & ALESANDRA MATTE: Economic activities tend to be tracked, given the need to accelerate the fight against the erosion of ecosystem services on which life on the planet depends
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & JULIANA TÂNGARI: Zeroing deforestation is essential, but it does not eliminate the threats posed by the global agrifood system to human health, animal welfare and ecosystem services
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY: Commentary on the recently published book by José Eli da Veiga
By BRUNO VELLO, RICARDO ABRAMOVAY & MARCELO DE MEDEIROS: Brazil and the world want policies that lead to a drastic and rapid reduction in deforestation
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The elite of our armed corporation acted as if the fall of the Berlin Wall meant nothing to its operating strategy and the basic values that guide it.
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The contrast between eco-efficiency and sobriety is well expressed in the link between production standards and diets
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
The economic nature of food cannot hide the right to food
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
It is not just deforestation, but livestock activity itself that is and will be increasingly at the epicenter of contemporary climate discussions
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
We live in an ecological, social and democratic crisis
By RICARDO ABRAMOVAY:
70% of the calories in the top ten global agricultural products go to uses other than feeding people