Tag: Agriculture
How Brazilian Indians Turned Cassava, a Poisonous Root Vegetable, into a Tasty Global Meal
The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice and wheat – are ...
Beef, Chicken, Corn, Coffee, Sugar and Two More Commodities. Brazil Produces Them for Close to 1 Billion People
Brazil has become the global leader in the export of at least seven food ...
The Solution to Brazil’s Deforestation: Fixing the Country’s Economy
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro participated in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
Brazil Does a U-turn on Environmental Policy and Sides with Big Farmers
Environmental issues have figured prominently in Brazil as of late, and the Brazilian Forest ...
Amazon Threatened by Presidential Election. Brazil Might Follow Trump Out of Paris Agreement
Almost every Brazilian (91 percent) wants to get closer to nature, while 27 percent ...
