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News: Global Challenges, 12/02/2023

CFP: Planetary Rural Geographies

Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference, London, 29 August – 1 September 2023 Planetary Rural Geographies Convenors: Michael Woods, Aberystwyth University, m.woods@aber.ac.uk Damian Maye, University of Gloucestershire, dmaye@glos.ac.uk Chi-Mao Wang, National Taiwan University, chimaowang@ntu.edu.tw Session Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group Abstract: The provocative thesis of planetary urbanization has […]

Event, News: 10/01/2019

Symposium: Encountering the Global Countryside

PRESENTATIONS NOW AVAILABLE Encountering the Global Countryside Thursday 24th January 2019 The Drwm, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. A day of presentations from the ERC GLOBAL-RURAL project exploring the impacts of globalization of rural societies and economies and rural community responses, including talks on food and agriculture, land-grabbing, migration, international volunteers, rural festivals and everyday […]

Blogs, Event, News: Agribusiness and alternatives, Biofuels, Counter Globalisation Movement, Food Security, Globalisation of Food, Health, Poverty, Water Resources, 12/10/2018

Blood in bio-ethanol: how indigenous peoples’ lives are being destroyed by global agribusiness in Brazil

Brazil, Dourados, Metropolitan region of Salvador

Written by Fois Francesca and Montenegro Machado and published in The Conversation, 30/08/2018. For more than half a century, the indigenous Kaiowá and Guarani people of Brazil have been deprived of their ancestral lands, and consigned to small reserves where it is impossible to maintain their traditional livelihoods. Generations of these indigenous peoples’ lives have been marked by […]

News: Biofuels, Dairy, Economy and Trade, 31/10/2017

Assembling Newtown – Survey Report

Australia, Queensland

In September 2016 Aberystwyth University conducted a rapid face-to-face survey of residents of Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, in Powys, Wales. These involved indepth discussions of on average 45-60 minutes with 162 residents (supplemented by an additional 72 shorter surveys). The report below provides a summary of some of the findings as they relate to Newtown. We […]

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CFP: Planetary Rural Geographies

Symposium: Encountering the Global Countryside

Blood in bio-ethanol: how indigenous peoples’ lives are being destroyed by global agribusiness in Brazil

Assembling Newtown – Survey Report

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