Lula da Silva Is Elected for a Third Term: What to Expect from This Government?

Oppermann, Daniel

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“…As unequal land distribution prevailed as the most important underlying determinant of vulnerability, land reform could be a means to redistribute power, by preventing elite land accumulation, whilst promoting attaining land for the landless. Lula has pledged to alleviate inequalities, notably poverty, for Brazil's historically disadvantaged groups (Oppermann, 2022). A positive change in tackling vulernability to enslavement aligns with Lula's agenda, however the extent to which contentious underlying determinants will be tackled will unfold throughout his presidency.…”

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“…Accordingly, the Bolsonaro state was complicit in enabling environmental and human rights abuse to continue in the Brazilian Amazon. However, in 2022 left-leaning Lula da Silva triumphed Bolsonaro in the elections, and has vowed to fight climate change by eliminating deforestation by 2030 (Greenfield and Harvey, 2022; Oppermann, 2022). The presidential change signals strong support for IBAMA, but the breadth of this support for GEFM remains unclear.…”

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From chains to chainsaws: Modern slavery and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Hobbs

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Modern slavery and deforestation in Brazil are interconnected issues but have been approached by researchers and policy interventions separately. However, an emerging slavery-environment nexus is demonstrating the urgent necessity of engaging with slavery and deforestation holistically, to aid effective action. Accordingly, the research aimed to investigate the slavery-environment nexus in the Brazilian Amazon, by engaging with three core components: vulnerability to enslavement, slavery-deforestation links, and assessing labour and environmental inspections. Mixed qualitative methods revealed that proximate determinants of vulnerability (poverty, lack of access to land, lack of education and social isolation) are multifaceted and produced by underlying determinants (unequal land distribution, racial discrimination, economic globalisation and policies undermining distribution). Furthermore, slavery and deforestation were found to be organised by criminal networks in geographically isolated spaces, specifically among interconnected sectors at the bottom of the supply chain. These characteristics facilitate slavery and deforestation by lessening the risk of detection and punishment, which was compounded by the Bolsonaro government demobilising labour and environmental inspections. Alleviating vulnerability through redistributing land prevailed as a practical recommendation, however there is also need for research to engage further with the underlying determinants of vulnerability and slavery-deforestation links. Only then can slavery and deforestation be tackled holistically.

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Section: Research Summary and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%