• ‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers

    ‘My dream is to buy a piece of land’: the ‘outsiders’ farming at the Amazon’s last frontiers
    Struggling to compete with land-grabbers and loggers, smallholder farmers move ever deeper into Brazil’s disappearing forestOnésio Nascimento has worked the land his whole life, moving from one Brazilian farming frontier to the next. During the coronavirus pandemic, he sold 20 hectares (50 acres) of land in northwest Mato Grosso state and used the money to buy another 100 hectares further north in the Amazon, in south Roraima.Today, he grows cassava and bananas on his land, an hour&

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