Land use, drug policy and climate justice - Plató magazine special edition
Table of contents
From Forest to Dust – Rebeca Lerer & Renato Filev
Explores how prohibition disrupts ecosystems, traditional knowledge, and community economies across South America.
Border Control, Routes of Violence and Deforestation – Daniela Dias de Souza
Describes the impact of drug trafficking and militarised borders on land grabbing, deforestation, and violent conflict in the Amazon.
Drugs and Indigenous Youth – Walela Soeikigh Paiter Bandeira Suruí
Argues that drug war policies threaten Indigenous youth and are a tool to seize ancestral lands.
Megaprojects and Drug Policies in the Pará Amazon – Dandara Rudsan Sousa de Oliveira
Examines how infrastructure megaprojects and drug repression deepen exclusion and violence in Amazonian communities.
We Want the Marajoara Population Alive and Kicking – Marajó Observatory
Explores how policing and poverty criminalise local youth and erode the well-being of Marajó’s population.
Violence and Surveillance on the Amazon Route – Pablo Nunes
Critiques the use of high-tech surveillance and police militarisation under the pretext of drug control.
Aerial Spraying of Pesticides in the Eastern Amazon – Diogo Diniz Ribeiro Cabral
Denounces chemical fumigation campaigns as forms of toxic warfare against traditional communities.
Territorial Conflicts and their Impact on Biodiversity – Letícia Benavalli
Links drug-related land disputes and agricultural expansion to jaguar habitat loss and ecosystem breakdown.
Climate Emergency – Adriana Ramos
Connects drug trafficking, inequality, and weak governance to Brazil’s climate vulnerabilities and rising emissions.
Health and Harm Reduction – Helena Fonseca Rodrigues & Paula Callegario de Souza
Highlights how drug criminalisation harms health, autonomy, and cultural rights in traditional communities.
Environmental Racism and Climate Justice – Mariana Belmont
Explains how drug war policies reinforce racial hierarchies and dispossession in climate-impacted territories.
Mothers in the Fight – From Grief to Resistance – Midiã Noelle
Gives voice to mothers resisting the disappearance and murder of their kids under state violence and mass incarceration.
Favela is a Plant – Aristênio Gomes dos Santos
Challenges the criminalisation of favelas and defends Afro-Brazilian urban cultures as rooted and vital.
Harm Reduction and Care Trajectories – Luana Malheiro
Uses Beatriz’s story to explore trauma, crack use, and harm reduction as care in marginalised spaces.
From Slavery to Incarceration – Erika Santos & Luan Silva Melo
Traces the roots of Brazil’s punitive system to colonial slavery, showing its ongoing racial violence.
The War on Drugs as a Threat to Democracy – Dudu Ribeiro, Juliana Borges & Nathália Oliveira
Argues that drug prohibition strengthens authoritarianism and erodes civil liberties across Brazil’s rural and urban areas.
There Will Be No Climate Justice If There is a War on Plant-Based Drugs – International Coalition for Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice
Calls for the inclusion of regulatory alternatives in environmental justice and climate agendas.