Books

Agrotóxicos e colonialismo químico

Editora Elefante · 2023

For some, this book will be a starting point to understand how a single agri-food system was able to spread, physically and ideologically, across the planet. For others, it will be a question mark: why do crops that do not feed anyone keep expanding year after year — and, worse, backed by a deep complacency before the eternally renewed promise that the solution to hunger is finally on its way? In Brazil, soy, that exotic grain none of us eat, is the vector of a cultural war called agribusiness.

— João Peres, in the book's flap

Pesticides, un colonialisme chimique

Éditions Anacaona · 2024 · French edition

The French edition of Agrotóxicos e Colonialismo Químico brings the research's central indictment to a European audience: substances banned within Europe itself continue to be produced and exported to the Global South, contaminating water, food, and the most vulnerable populations.

O bairro reforma agrária e o processo de territorialização camponesa

Annablume · 2004

“This book is a precise and loving description of peasant life. I cannot recall reading anything so inspiring about the rural world since, many years ago, Knut Hamsun's novel Growth of the Soil fell into my hands. Yet Larissa Mies Bombardi's work is not fiction, but good science, anchored in solid theoretical foundations and rigorous fieldwork. [...] Its first great merit is establishing the relationship between the various dimensions of peasant reality, in order to grasp it in its totality. [...]”

Atlas — Geografia do uso de agrotóxicos no Brasil e conexões com a União Europeia

2017 · free e-book

An atlas that maps, with data and detailed cartography, the intensity of pesticide use across Brazilian territory and its connections with the European market. It has become an international reference on the subject and is available free of charge as an e-book.

Geografia das assimetrias: o círculo vicioso dos agrotóxicos (Mercosul–União Europeia)

2021 · free e-book

A study on the “vicious circle” of pesticides and colonialism in the trade relationship between Mercosur and the European Union, launched in 2021 at the European Parliament. Available free of charge.