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Brazil
Naelson Medeiros was born about 30 years ago in Sombras Grandes, a small community in the vast ‘grey land’ of the Caatigna forest in north-eastern Brazil. The forest gets its nickname from the monochrome colours of the landscape evident due to the annual nine-month drought when there is precious little green to be seen. Medeiros remembers the difficult times of living in this harsh landscape, when survival seemed almost impossible.
For families living in the community, firewood collected for charcoal production and temporary farming were the only sources of income. “Firewood was becoming scarce,” says Medeiros. “Stones were all we had, and you could see people breaking them to sell the gravel to building companies.”
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Rodney Cooke
Director
Technical Advisory Division
IFAD
Elwyn Grainger-Jones
Director
Environment and Climate Division
IFAD
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