One of the biggest challenges for the global economy is to use natural resources more efficiently, increasing food and energy production while preserving the environment. Brazil is at the center of ...

The proportion of Internet users in rural areas grew in Brazil compared to the period before the pandemic, but fast connections and computers are still lacking, according to a new survey published by ...

Brazil has seen a major upswing of violence in recent years, with 63,880 homicides in 2017, a trend that includes both urban and rural areas, and parts of the Amazon where land grabbing and other ...

CATANDUVA, Brazil, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The small city of Catanduva in the rural farm belt of Sao Paulo state has been ahead of the political curve in Brazil. In 1996, the city elected leftist Felix ...

Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. Sign up This story originally appeared in NACLA on Aug. 2, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission. In Araçuaí, a small ...

More than three decades after the end of authoritarian military rule in Brazil, extreme inequality in the countryside has hardly changed. Inequality, especially in land tenure, is a structural trait ...

Brazil should be well placed to benefit from renewed interest in forestry projects, but the country’s restrictive land laws could lead foreign investment to flow elsewhere. On paper, Brazil should be ...

Brazil militias have taken land from people in rural regions New details about militias in Brazil’s rural areas reveal how these criminal groups have spread rapidly in strategic regions around the ...

Over the past 30 years, Brazilian governments-both military and civilian-have proclaimed the need for "agrarian reform" but have resisted implementing an effective policy. INCRA (National Institute of ...

In his feature debut, “Castanha,” Davi Pretto won upbeat reactions at Berlin’s Forum for a docu/fiction character study of cabaret-performer João Carlos Castanha, a gay man living with his elderly mom ...

(São Paulo) – Rural residents are being poisoned in Brazil from pesticides sprayed near their homes, schools, and workplaces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Many rural communities ...

BRASILIA, Brazil – Police in rural Brazil have detained one man and were seeking two others in the slaying of a soccer referee who was killed, dismembered and decapitated by spectators after he ...