The expansion of bioeconomy strategies focused on growth and technology in the Brazilian Amazon risks reinforcing colonial and exploitative patterns. To ensure environmental justice, development must shift toward community-centered, post-growth forest futures.

The commentary highlights challenges in sustainably scaling the Amazonian sociobioeconomy using a�ai and cacao as examples, warning against conventional growth approaches. It advocates for innovative scaling strategies focused on diversification, local empowerment, territorial management, and bottom-up governance.

The study highlights the importance of understanding malaria epidemiology in the indigenous population, as few studies have focused on this group in Roraima. More research is needed to inform malaria control and prevention efforts to meet its scheduled erradication by 2035.

This study emphasizes the critical need for culturally sensitive research and targeted interventions to address the high rates of high-lethality suicide attempts among indigenous populations, particularly in Colombia's Embera community. It highlights how understanding cultural, social, and environmental factors is essential for developing effective prevention strategies tailored to these vulnerable groups.

This study demonstrates that a community-based primary care approach, involving local stakeholders in diagnosis, planning, and implementation, can effectively identify health needs and foster community ownership, especially in vulnerable populations during health crises like COVID-19. Such participatory strategies, aligned with Bolivia’s SAFCI health model, can improve health outcomes, address social determinants, and enhance system resilience for future emergencies.

The high prevalence of musculoskeletal diseases, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, in the Misak indigenous community—originally from Colombia— is likely influenced by cultural, socioeconomic, genetic, and environmental factors, leading to significant disability. This study highlights the importance of implementing culturally sensitive, interdisciplinary interventions for early diagnosis, better treatment adherence, and improved health outcomes tailored to the community's specific sociocultural context.

This study evaluates Child Aid’s innovative teacher training program in rural Guatemalan indigenous schools, which combines workshops, instructional coaching, and provision of children’s literature to enhance reading comprehension and critical thinking.

This study explores how literacies are intertwined with social practices and shaped by ethnolinguistic and cultural histories, based on research with Indigenous language learners and facilitators in Mexico.

This study compared nutrient-based dietary patterns among U.S. Hispanic/Latino adults across two major national surveys and found that diet�disease relationships, particularly regarding diabetes and hypertension risk, varied significantly depending on the population and sampling strategy. These findings highlight the importance of considering the diversity within Hispanic/Latino communities when designing nutrition and health interventions, as one-size-fits-all approaches may not be effective.

The article discusses the integration of justice enablers, including recognitional, procedural, and distributive justice, into climate-health adaptation planning in South America.