News and Updates: Agritoxins
Model based on monoculture and use of pesticides still harms food production and increases costs
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For the MST, the agendas highlighted by the Act also include the threat of evictions that thousands of families currently face across the country.
...Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul sow 100 hectares of poison-free soy
Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement, of the...
Article discusses Brazil's actions on pesticides in view of the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council
Amid burning and countless consequences of Covid-19, Brazil goes against the...
While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from the toxic industrial compound PFOS, Brazil is still adding to the massive environmental mess with its large-scale production, use, and export of sulfluramid, a pesticide that degrades into PFOS.
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Direct Action of Unconstitutionality on the subject will be accommodated on the agenda of the Supreme Federal Court
The judicial review by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of the Direct...
Environmentalist Angela Mendes spoke with Brasil de Fato about alliance against Bolsonaro administration’s setbacks
By the banks of the Xingu River, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, a new...
The Movement signed commitments in the struggle for Agrarian Reform, against the 
withdrawal of rights of the Brazilian people, in defense of the environment and national sovereignty
By the National Coordination of...
Our weekly show also reports on a cultural complex that was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity
This week on...
Bolsonaro administration approved 239 substances; pace is so fast that farm lobby stopped pushing “Poison Bill”
In 200 days, the Jair Bolsonaro administration has approved more new pesticides in Brazil than the European...