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 ...

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 ...

Visit Ceará, home to Brazil's most important religious shrine. A small state in Brazil's dry northeast, Ceará is home to a variety of traditions not found in the rest of the vast country. The inland ...

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 ...

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will ...

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 ...

Since taking power in 2016, Michel Temer has drastically cut Brazil’s social programs, especially impacting poor rural families. These austerity measures also adversely affect the natural world, with ...

(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 ...

Elon Musk’s Starlink has announced a partnership with the Brazilian government to operate satellites in the Amazon rainforest. The billionaire claims Starlink, a space-based system to bring internet ...

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 ...