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Visiting the city hosting the Cop30 conference brings with it questions about farming, tourism and sustainability In an open-air market in the Brazilian city of Belém, I had a problem. It was breakfast time and I wanted a drink, but the long menu of fruit juices was baffling. Apart from pineapple ( abacaxi ) and mango ( manga ), I’d never heard of any of the drinks. What are bacuri , buriti and muruci ? And what about mangaba , tucumã and uxi ? Even my phone was confused. Uxi , it informed me, is a Zulu word meaning “you are”. But then I started to recognise names that I’d heard on my six-week voyage from the Andes to the mouth of the Amazon. There was cu puaçu . I’d picked one of those cacao-like pods in a Colombian village about 1,900 miles (3,000km) back upriver. And even further away, in Peru, there was aça í : a purple berry growing high up on a wild palm. The Amazon, it seems, is vast and varied, but also remarkably similar along its astonishing length. Continue reading...
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