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Rolling towards circularity? Tracking the trace of tires

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 12 Jan 2024

Land in the Pan Amazon, the ultimate commodity: Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024

Other financial systems in the agricultural practice of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2023
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023

Rural finance in the Pan Amazon: the Brazil success case

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Dec 2023

Roundtables and certification schemes in the Pan-Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Dec 2023

Coca in the Amazon – The anti-development crop

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Dec 2023

Local and national food crops in the Andean Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2023
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)

Emiel de Lange, Sushil Raj, Yun Mane 1 Dec 2023

High quality cacao in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Nov 2023

Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2023

Coffee and cacao in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2023

Biofuels in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2023

What does oil palm require to reach international markets?

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023
wind farm

Colombian wind farm end-of-life raises circularity and Indigenous questions

Natalia Torres Garzón 9 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan-Amazon: Swine and poultry – Adding value to farm production

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Nov 2023

Indonesian activist Gita Syahrani wins $3m award for work on sustainable growth

Lusia Arumingtyas 3 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Global markets for soybean and corn crops

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2023
Arg-e Bam in Iran, a trading center on the famous Silk Road, known to be the largest adobe building in the world.

What’s old is new again: Bioarchitects plot route to circular economy

Sandra Weiss 26 Oct 2023

Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Oct 2023

Livestock farming in the Andean Amazon and the rest of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2023

National versus global markets – beef in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Oct 2023

Industrial infrastructure in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Oct 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Beef production models

Timothy J. Killeen 11 Oct 2023

Agriculture: profitability determines land use | Chapter 3 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 10 Oct 2023
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023

Sustainable infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: In search of an oxymoron

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Oct 2023

Investing in the Pan Amazon: How China’s investment operates

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2023

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