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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Women participate in the Margaridas march, in front of the Brazilian National Congress, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. The Margaridas, or Daisies, formed to honor Margarida Maria Alves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's Senate has approved two bills expanding gun rights for residents of rural areas. The legislation that passed Wednesday would allow gun owners to carry firearms anywhere ...

SERRINHA, Brazil — Squeezed into plastic chairs, hand fans going full tilt, hundreds of parents listened in the summer heat. The planet was in big trouble, they were told, and the time had come for ...