Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging – but has the country’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined?<br>
The full title of this article is “‘Dirty political games’: Suriname is selling its gold and timber – at the cost of tribal land rights.” Bram Ebus (in Pokigron, Suriname) reports for The Guardian. All photographs by Bram Ebus. He writes, “Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging…
In the past year, international agencies worldwide have continued to sound an alarm over surges in food insecurity that are plunging millions of people into extreme hunger, malnutrition and threats to their overall health. The U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) calls it “a hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions.” This worrying trend has been exacerbated by […]