Flaviano Bianchini equips communities and grassroots citizen organizations (COs) with the ability to measure the harmful consequences of natural resource extraction and bring lawsuits against their perpetrators.
Read moreIsmael Ferreira de Oliveira
Ashoka Fellow since Dec 1990
Ismael Ferreira is working to make Brazil's declining sisal industry competitive and to put more profits into the hands of the crop's many small producers. Grown in the dry Northeast, sisal is a drought-resistant cash crop that helps these farmers stay on their subsistence farms.
Read moreIsmael Ferreira de Oliveira
Ashoka Fellow since Dec 1990
Ismael Ferreira is working to make Brazil's declining sisal industry competitive and to put more profits into the hands of the crop's many small producers. Grown in the dry Northeast, sisal is a drought-resistant cash crop that helps these farmers stay on their subsistence farms.
Read moreIsmael Ferreira de Oliveira
Ashoka Fellow since Dec 1990
Ismael Ferreira is working to make Brazil's declining sisal industry competitive and to put more profits into the hands of the crop's many small producers. Grown in the dry Northeast, sisal is a drought-resistant cash crop that helps these farmers stay on their subsistence farms.
Read moreIn Memory of Orri Vigfusson, Who Saved the North Atlantic’s Salmon
His organization is a facilitator trying to develop a culture of rights-based and evidence-based approach in journalists and civil society organizations. Works with more than 50 grassroots organizations and 340 journalists from the mainstream media Played an active role in making the MP government...
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