From September 2021 to August 2023, I was one of the inaugural op-ed columnists at PlenaMata, an environmental news portal maintained by InfoAmazônia, MapBiomas and Natura. During this period, I published nearly 20 monthly bilingual (PT/EN) op-eds examining themes related to my research. The original site has been discontinued, but all my columns are reproduced below.
Value Added: Magical Thinking or the secret sauce of business success? | August 2023
The Legacy of the Rubber Boom and its Relevance for Amazonian Products Today | July 2023
The Fundecitrus experience and the Production of Narrow Public Goods | May 2023
How can Brazil recover its leadership in the sustainable production of cocoa beans? | March 2023
Bioeconomy: the knowledge needed to increase productivity already exists, but it is not shared widely | February 2023
What should the government do to foster the bioeconomy in the Amazon? | January 2023
The Amazon’s forest-friendly economy needs a continuous improvement regime | December 2022
The Brazilian Amazon punches way below its weight on the market for forest-friendly products | November 2022
Knowledge is power: facts are fundamental to meaningful action in the Amazon | August 2022
Robert’s Rules of Order and the Power of Collective Action | July 2022
The challenge of sectoral shared | June 2022
The Potential of Forest-Friendly Products | May 2021
An Amazon-based drug industry? Still a mirage | March 2022
Environmental and labor regulations: job-killers or job-creators? | February 2022
The Amazon can become a carbon powerhouse, but it needs to go further | January 2022
Do you want to promote a forest-friendly economy in the Amazon? Factories are not the way to go |December 2021
What’s holding the Paris Agreement back: new books offers some ideas | November 2021
How agroforestry replicates the efficient Toyota System in the field | October 2021
The idea of prerequisites as an obstacle to development | September 2021