Sue Branford

Sue Branford is co-editor of Seeding and manages the publications of the agricultural-diversity NGO, Grain. She reports regularly from Latin America for the BBC and the UK Guardian.

Copenhagen: climate countdown

The United Nations climate-change summit is a vital moment in the world’s effort to avert catastrophe. openDemocracy authors reflect on what needs to happen and how much Copenhagen can achieve.

By John Elkington, Ian Christie, Andrew Dobson, Sue Branford, Oliver Tickell and Øyvind Paasche

/ 17 Dec 2009

Lula's last challenge: the Amazon

Brazil's president will present a "green" face at Copenhagen's climate-change summit. But has he truly rethought his old "developmentalism", asks Sue Branford.

By Sue Branford

/ 9 Dec 2009

The G20’s missing voice

It's hard to feel enthusiasm about the prospects for the G20 meeting to be held in London on 2 April 2009, even before the world leaders make their

By Sue Branford

/ 25 Mar 2009

The world food summit: a lost opportunity

The timing of the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit in Rome on 3-5 June 2008 was fortuitous. It had already been scheduled as the latest of

By Sue Branford

/ 10 Jun 2008

Brazil’s Amazonian choice

The unexpected resignation on 13 May 2008 of Brazil's internationally renowned environment minister, Marina Silva, is a dramatic demonstration of the power of the "developmentalist" faction

By Sue Branford

/ 19 May 2008

Brazils historic test

The Brazilian authorities have every reason to be grateful that the soccer world cup in Germany arrived just in time to divert people's attention from the crisis of

By Sue Branford

/ 18 Jun 2006

Colombia's other war

“We were sitting chatting outside our home, when two small planes flew over very low. We went down to our fields to see what was happening. My husband said: ‘Look,

By Sue Branford

/ 14 Nov 2005

Sue Branford

Copenhagen: climate countdown

Lula's last challenge: the Amazon

The G20’s missing voice

The world food summit: a lost opportunity

Brazil’s Amazonian choice

Brazil&#146;s historic test

Colombia's other war

Brazils historic test