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Many Indigenous communities in northern Nicaragua are struggling with hunger and malnutrition as increasing land invasions force them from ancestral forests that they once sustainably managed for crop cultivation. Residents in and around the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve near the Caribbean coast, most of them part of Mayangna and Miskito Indigenous communities, don’t always have enough […]
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Nanni Fontana. After receiving a bachelor's degree in finance in 2003, Nanni Fontana began working as a news photojournalist.
Since 2009, he has been working as an independent photographer and has been focusing his work on in-depth reports and long-term projects on contemporary and health-related issues.
In 2008, he was commissioned La Moskitia. Gracias a Dios, a book about the extreme sanitary conditions of the Miskito Indigenous minority in rural Honduras.
In 2011, he published Medpeople, a book on the perspectives of young people living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Between then and 2015, he worked on Out of Sight, a journalism and educational project on the HIV/AIDS epidemic after 30 years.
In 2015, along with journalists Marzio G. Mian and Nicola Scevola and photographer Massimo Di Nonno, Fontana founded the River Journal, a multimedia project reporting on current issues while exploring important rivers of the world.
In 2017 he began In Transito, a long-term proj
The Earth's warming temperatures are having a disproportionate negative impact on Indigenous peoples, those of African descent and migrants, but their ancestral wisdom is essential to efforts to reduc.