Economy
A Message to Brazil: “We Are Not Occupying Your Lands. You Have Invaded Us.”
We will remember 2020 as the year when the coronavirus pandemic spread worldwide, reached ...
World’s Largest Cash Transfer to Families Is a Brazil’s Model Program
Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil Were as Young as Nine
A large Brazilian tobacco exporter has been charged with using slave labor in the ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
Survival of Brazil’s Flower-gatherers, a 300-year-old Activity, Threatened by Mining and State
“The mountain range is our soil, our life,” affirms Maria de Fátima Alves, head ...
Brazil’s Amazon Needs New Development Model With Less Cattle and Soy and More Use of Biodiversity
President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to develop the Amazon through expanded mining and farming has ...
Covid: Manaus, Inside the Brazilian Rain Forest, Begs the World for Oxygen
Amazonas state in northern Brazil has admitted it is running short of oxygen to ...
The Future of Brazil’s Amazon Depends on What You Eat Every Day
Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food ...
