Biodiversity and ecosystem conservation in the Amazon play a critical role in climate-change mitigation. However, institutional responses have had conflicted and complex relations with Indigenous peoples. There is a growing ...

Background: Chile is a highly religious country. Although a majority of the population describes itself as Catholic, there has been a substantial growth in Evangelism, especially among indigenous people. In this context, ...

Although many Brazilian sugar mills initiate the fermentation process by inoculating selected commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, the unsterile conditions of the industrial sugar cane ethanol fermentation process ...

Although many Brazilian sugar mills initiate the fermentation process by inoculating selected commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains, the unsterile conditions of the industrial sugar cane ethanol fermentation process ...

This paper analyses the fertility of the Kamaiurá, a Tupi people that inhabits the Xingu Indigenous Park (XIP), between 1970 and 2003. Data has been gathered from medical records of the Health Program of the São Paulo ...

Fertility of the self-declared indigenous women is analyzed based on Brazilian censuses from 1991 to 2010. Initially, as an approximation to the limitation that the quality of data may impose, population growth captured ...