The area known as Areinha has been explored for the precious stone since the time of slavery. Up to a few years ago, multinational mining companies extracted the stone without concern for the land; ...

They found that properties with secure land rights deforested less and were more likely to comply with Brazil's Forest Code, ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the eve of COP 30, Brazil seeks to assert itself as an environmental and food power, but it carries contradictions that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...