Por João Cesar Diaz |
29/04/21
Brazilian banks Itaú, BNDES, Banco do Brasil and Safra financed at least four of the meatpacking companies that contributed most to illegal deforestation in the Amazon. Between 2013 and 2019, the four banks’ funding operations with the meatpackers amounted to US$ 9.6...
By Maurício Hashizume |
29/04/21
A large property in the Brazilian Amazon that had been repeatedly notified for environmental violations due to illegal deforestation and fires in recent years used an official document to hide embargoes and infractions. Busted by state and federal agencies several...
Por Daniel Camargos* |
13/04/21
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, he ushered in a climate of hostility toward rural activists — Indigenous peoples, environmentalists, advocates for landless workers’ rights, and communities subsisting off the sustainable...
By Fernanda Sucupira and Maurício Hashizume |
22/03/21
Repórter Brasil’s publication “From Brazilian Farms to European Tables – Socio-Environmental Impacts and Labor Violations in Brazil-EU Agricultural Supply Chains (Beef, Orange, Coffee and Cocoa)” is a contribution to the international campaign Our Food, Our...
By Mariana Della Barba and Diego Toledo |
15/10/20
Foreign missionaries working in Brazil are targeting isolated people living in the Amazon Region (Photo: Gleilson Miranda/Government of Acre) “God allow them to find their lost children,” says one of the websites of foreign missionary groups that work to...
By Daniel Camargos and André Campos | Photo: João Paulo Guimarães |
08/10/20
Part of the fire devastating the Pantanal in Mato Grosso started in farms whose owners sell cattle to former minister and former senator Blairo Maggi’s Amaggi group and to the Bom Futuro group, which belongs to Eraí Maggi, considered the world’s largest soy producer....
