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....
By Maurício Hashizume |
08/10/20
In mid-August, Kayapó indigenous people took yellow posters not only to the middle of the federal road known as BR-163 but also to the world’s headlines. Taking extra risks because of Covid-19, they left their villages and occupied the road that connects Cuiabá, in...
By André Campos and Piero Locatelli |
02/10/20
Cattle ranching is the primary driver of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon basin today (Photo: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real) In July, a major policy to combat global warming was announced by BlackRock, the world’s largest investment fund manager. The company said it would...
