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  • The Homelands Blog

    Project finds lessons in group’s healthy forests

    Like many of the world’s indigenous groups, Panama’s Guna people are facing formidable challenges: the impacts of climate change, encroaching outside influences, and a younger generation that’s drifting away from its roots. Yet their situation …

  • Cecilia Vaisman

    Vanishing Homelands

    Sustainable Colonization

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    Cecilia Vaisman

    Vanishing Homelands

    Sustainable Colonization

    In Brazil, a peasant cooperative has planted native crops using methods designed to preserve the delicate forest soils. But the farmers have little formal education, and even less experience managing a business.

    Since the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of poor peasants have streamed into the Brazilian Amazon in a desperate search for farmland.

    Many of them arrive only to find that rainforest soils cannot sustain the kinds of crops they knew back home. So they end up in a vicious cycle – slashing and burning new areas of forest year after year.

    Now, a small group of farmers living in the most devastated region of the Amazon is trying an alternative. Some say it may become a model to stop the destruction of the jungle.

    Narration is by Edward James Olmos, who hosted a series of 13 half-hour Vanishing Homelands specials.

    Date

    July 1992

    Outlets

    NPR

    Tags

    Themes: Economy, Environment
    Regions: South America
    Media: Audio
    Other Contributors: Cecilia Vaisman
    Other Tags: soil degradation, Brazil, cooperatives, rainforest