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Geography Colloquium: The Land-Grab Industry in the Brazilian Amazon – the stealing of public lands with the government’s approval

Speaker: Gabriel Cardoso Carrero

PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida

Thursday, March 11, 2021

2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)

Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube

University of Florida

All are welcome to attend.

Gabriel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at the University of Florida. With a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. in Ecology, Gabriel has been researching human-environment interactions in Brazil and Africa’s tropical forests since 2004. As an Associate Senior Researcher at the Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Amazon (IDESAM), Gabriel has led many initiatives and projects that combined conservation, community development, and rural production in the past 12 years.

Gabriel’s research includes themes of forest monitoring, land-use change, agricultural supply chains, and, more recently, frontier heterogeneity, development processes, and land appropriation in the Amazon basin. His work is interdisciplinary and often involves concepts of Geography, Ecology, Forestry, and Agronomy.

For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu