♦ Oral Presentations
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2023). A global food system exposed to multiple crises: A snapshot on the Amazon. Seminar: The challenge of making science-based policy recommendation for a global food system. The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. 26 January 2023. Stockholm, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2022). Brazil’s deforestation lock-in: Or why end-of-pipe solutions did not hold and a transition is needed. Forests, Climate and Livelihoods (FOCALI) annual meeting. 01 Dec 2022. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2022). A restorative bioeconomy: Enhancing Nature’s Contributions to Historically Disadvantaged People in the Brazilian Amazon. Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement (FLARE) Conference. 07 Oct 2022. Rome, Italy.
Gardner, T., Bellfield, H., Bastos Lima, M.G., et al. (2022). Aligning expectations on data to deliver on regulatory and voluntary requirements: monitoring forest-risk supply chains. Trase parallel session in the Oslo Tropical Forests Forum. 22 Jun 2022. Oslo, Norway.
Gardner, T., Bellfield, H., Bastos Lima, M.G., et al. (2022). A step-change in demand-side measures. Trase parallel session in the Oslo Tropical Forests Forum. 21 Jun 2022. Oslo, Norway.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2022). A restorative bioeconomy: Enhancing Nature’s Contributions to Historically Disadvantaged People in the Brazilian Amazon. Politically sustainable, but socially unjust? Contradictions of the Politics of a Sustainable Bioeconomy. Seminar of the Bio-Inequalities Research Group. 18 Feb 2022. Virtual event from Jena, Germany.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2021). The Politics of Zero-Deforestation Commitments: Accountability and its discontents in the Governance of Soy from Brazil. International Public Policy Association (IPPA ) 5th International Conference on Public Policy. 07 July 2021. Virtual from Barcelona, Spain.
Bastos Lima, M.G., Siegel, K., Maghraby, W. and Johnson, F.X. (2021). The Politics of Biofuels and the Bioeconomy: Who wins and who loses? Dialogue of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) launching the book The Politics of Bioeconomy and Sustainability. [Recording available online.] 17 June 2021. Virtual event from Stockholm, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2021). Maldevelopment revisited: Inclusiveness and social impacts of soy expansion over Brazil’s Cerrado in Matopiba. Webinar for the Transparency for Sustainable Economies (Trase) initiative. 21 Apr 2021. Virtual event from Stockholm, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2021). Power shifts among the giants: The politics of the bioeconomy transition in Brazil. International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention. 06 April 2021. Virtual from Las Vegas, USA.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2021). Lessons from Brazil on the transition to a bioeconomy: Changing technologies while aggravating other sustainability issues? Webinar for the Technology Governance and Energy Transitions (TEG) initiative. 09 February 2021. Virtual event from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2020). Power shifts among the giants: The politics of the bioeconomy transition in Brazil. International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC). 03 September 2020. Virtual event from Sheffield, UK.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2020). Power shifts among the giants: The politics of bioeconomy transitions and multi-regime interactions. International Sustainability Transitions (IST) conference. 21 August 2020. Virtual event from Vienna, Austria.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2020). Necropolitics in the woods: Indigenous peoples, social inequality, and COVID-19 in the Amazon. Nature, people and rights in the times of COVID: What new dimensions does the pandemic bring to the socio-ecological development challenges? Digital roundtable dialogue facilitated by Focali in collaboration with SIANI and SLU Global. 27 May 2020. Sweden
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). Globalization and its Brazilian discontents: Pushbacks on climate and the environment in Brazil. Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development, Anti-Globalization and Populism series. 10 Oct 2019. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). Recent and upcoming changes in Brazil’s land tenure policy for local communities and indigenous peoples. Forest tenure reform in the Amazon – a path to livelihoods and tenure security for local people? Forests, Climate and Livelihoods (FOCALI) Network seminar. 27 Sep 2019. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). The secrets of soy and farmland investments in Brazil’s last Cerrado frontier. Global Land Programme 4th Open Science Meeting. 24 Apr 2019. Bern, Switzerland.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). Soy, savannahs and Sustainable Development Goals: Interpretations, discourses and practices. Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS). 04 Apr 2019. Leicester, United Kingdom.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). The Cerrado Working Group as commodity-based landscape governance: Assessing its achievements and limitations. Promoting Effective Sustainability Governance in Soy: Interdisciplinary Workshop. University of York, N8AgriFood, and IKnowFood consortia. 28 Mar 2019. York, United Kingdom.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2019). Insights from current developments in the Amazon: The role of land rights, transparency of value chains, certifications and zero-deforestation initiatives. Dialogue on the International Day of Forests: Stepping up Swedish Action on Tropical Deforestation. Forests, Climate and Livelihoods (FOCALI) Network and Swedish Agricultural International Network Initiative (SIANI). 21 Mar 2019. Stockholm, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2018). How to engage with Brazil and its environmental issues under the new political setting. (Video participation). 1st Dialogue meeting on the Brazilian Amazon – potential implications of the new political landscape in Brazil. Forests, Climate and Livelihoods (FOCALI) Network. 05 Dec 2018. Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2018). Understanding Leakage in Environmental Policy: Concept, Pathways, and Critical Points. Meeting of the Forests, Climate and Livelihoods (FOCALI) Network, Stockholm Environment Institute. 05 Jun 2018. Stockholm, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2018). Jurisdictional Approaches to the Sustainability of Global Agricultural Supply Chains. 13th annual meeting (RT13) of the Roundtable of Responsible Soy (RTRS). 31 May 2018. Lille, France.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2018). Challenges of Landscape Sustainability: Getting Policy Mixes of Jurisdictional Approaches and Demand-side Measures Right. Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. 24 May 2018. Bonn, Germany.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2015). REDD+ in a Landscape Approach: Addressing Drivers, Promoting Non-Carbon Benefits. REDD@WUR Event “Moving into the Landscape”. 9 Sep 2015. Wageningen, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2015). Discussion Round on REDD+ and Landscapes: Policy and Governance Issues for meeting pre-2020 ambition in the land sector. Side-event to the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn 2015, co-organized with WWF’s Forest and Climate Programme. 10 Jun 2015. Bonn, Germany.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2015). Experiences in Jurisdictional REDD+ and the Landscape Approach in Latin America: A preliminary assessment of lessons from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador. Environmental Policy Group (ENP) Research Colloquium. 20 May 2015. Wageningen, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2015). Accountability in the Anthropocene: Lessons from the Politics of REDD+. Amsterdam Earth System Governance lab. 26 Mar 2015. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. and Batisani, N. (2014). Mainstreaming Climate Smart Agriculture into Policy frameworks: Policy scoping studies synthesis. 2014 FANRPAN High Level Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue for Africa: Policies for Climate Smart Agriculture family farming in Africa. 29 Sep to 2 Oct 2014. Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2014). REDD+ as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development. WWF Forest and Climate Programme, Online Learning Session N. 26, 15 Sep 2014. [Recorded and Available Online]
Bastos Lima, M.G. and Ngwenya, H. (2014). Promotion of Climate-smart Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Norwich Earth System Governance Conference, 1-3 July 2014. Norwich, United Kingdom.
Bastos Lima, M.G. and Perch, L. (2014). Achieving Climate-Smart Agriculture: Policy and Gender Dimensions. Regional Conference on Climate Change and Climate Smart Agriculture: Positioning Policies, institutional frameworks & research in Africa, 21-24 Apr 2014. Pretoria, South Africa.
Bastos Lima, M.G. and Gupta, A. (2014). REDD+ after Warsaw: Current framework and emerging issues. 9th REDD+ Platform Meeting – The Warsaw Policy Framework for REDD+: Is It Ready To Work? 27 Feb 2014. Zeist, the Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2013). Política indígena e conservação no Brasil. 3rd Field Workshop of the COMBIOSERVE Project in Brazil, 17-20 Oct 2013. Coroa Vermelha, Brazil.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2013). An Analysis of Allocation and Access in the Food vs. Fuel Nexus: Comparing Architectures of Biofuel Programmes in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference 2013, United Nations University. Tokyo, Japan.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2013). Emerging Economies and Environmental Governance Post Multilateralism: The Case of the EU RED and Biofuel Production in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Earth System Governance Tokyo Conference 2013, United Nations University. Tokyo, Japan.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). The Social Dimensions of a Biofuels “Green Economy”: Lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia. SENSE Science Market: Towards a Bio-based Economy – science meets stakeholders. The Hague, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). The Governance of Biofuels: Lessons for the Collective Role of Government and Civil Society Organizations. United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), side-event organized jointly by the UNDP and TERI-India. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). Bio-fuelling Sustainable Development? Perspectives from Emerging Economies and the EU in a Context of Geopolitical Changes. TU Delft. Delft, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). Global Governance versus National Sovereignty: The Case of the Extraterritorial Impacts of Biofuel Policies. 2012 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Lund University. Lund, Sweden.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). An Institutional Analysis of Biofuel Policies and their Social Implications in Developing Countries: Lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia. Towards Greening the Economy Symposium, Institute of Economic Growth. New Delhi, India.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2011). An Institutional Analysis of Biofuel Policies and their Social Implications in Developing Countries: Lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia. Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing back the Social Dimension, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Geneva, Switzerland.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2011). Indonesian Forest Policy and Lessons for REDD+: How effective has been the fight against the drivers of forest loss? Indonesian Soil Research Institute, Bogor, Indonesia.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2011). The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy: The Case of Brazil and its Biofuel Industry. Invited presentation, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2010). Um Panorama da Biodiversidade: a perda silenciosa e os nós górdios do debate. VIII Seminário Brasil-Canadá de Estudos Comparados: Biodiversidade. Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. Feira de Santana, Brazil.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2010). Energy for Sustainable Development: The case of Brazil and biofuel production. Invited presentation, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2010). Biofuels in Brazil – Production and Policies: Failures, successes, and paths to sustainability. Invited presentation, Wageningen University. Wageningen, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2009). Biofuels and Brazil on the International Arena. Invited presentation, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Brasília, Brazil.
Gupta, J. and Bastos Lima, M.G. (2009). Energy Governance as a Multi-level Issue: Challenges for the 21st Century. Invited presentation, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2009). Biofuel Sustainability: Policies and Global Governance. Annual PhD Seminar of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2008). An Ecosystem Approach to Health and Urban Food Security: A Comparative Analysis. Annual Conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC), Vancouver, Canada.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2008). Healthy Community Approaches: Cases in Food Security. Guest lecturer at the Master’s course “Eco-Health Perspectives”, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2007). Food Security in Brazilian and Canadian Communities. IX International Congress of the Brazilian Association of Canadian Studies (ABECAN). Chair of the communications session “Latin America and Canada: Comparative Perspectives”. Salvador, Brazil.
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2007). Bioethics for Life and Sustainability in the Globalized Era. University Conference on Bioethics, Psychology and the Environment. Universidade Salvador (UNIFACS), Salvador, Brazil.
♦ Poster presentations
Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). The Reach (and the Limits) of EU Policies on Emerging Economies: The Case of the EU RED and Biofuel Production in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Planet Under Pressure 2012 Conference, London, UK.
Gupta, J., Grijp, N. vd, Haug, C., Kuik, O., and Bastos Lima, M.G. (2012). Forest Governance: Results from a Local to Global Analysis. Planet Under Pressure 2012 Conference, London, UK.