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BELEM, Brazil, Sep 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid -- but short-lived -- economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last 30 years, according to a new study...This dynamic was revealed by researchers Adalberto Veríssimo and Danielle Celentano, of Imazon (Institute of Man...

[09/10/2007] The Agrofuels Trap. By Laura Carlsen

Agrofuel development has arrived on the global stage. Just this year, the number of declarations, dollars, and development plans that have gone to agrofuels are unparalleled in any other sector. An idea that languished for decades has suddenly become the darling of politicians, big...

What do you get when you fuse the most brutal landowners of the Global South with some of the most powerful corporations of the North, such as Monsanto, DuPont, British Petroleum and Morgan Stanley? You get transnational corporations that reap billions of dollars in profits, Brazil’s landowning elite with a new lease on its degenerate lifestyle...

BRAZIL: Ethanol Divides Agribusiness
By Mario Osava

Credit:IPS/Mario Osava

RIO VERDE, Brazil, Sep 8 (IPS/IFEJ) - The expansion of sugarcane farming to produce more ethanol in Brazil has run into unexpected resistance in Rio Verde, a prosperous town in the central state of Goiás, and it is coming from agribusiness leaders....

Dear Friends of the MST,

In early Spetember, several social movements issued a statement to question the auction of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce in 1997. The sale took place while President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was in office and was marked by peculiarities that have been going on since the transfer of the Companhia, sold for 3.3...

Brazilian Government: The Lands Occupied by Aracruz Should be Returned to the Indigenous
30/08/2007 | News

The Brazilian Minister of Justice, Tarso Genro, signed a resolution that guarantees the Tupinikims and Guarani indigenous the property of 14,227 hectares of land in Aracruz municipality (Spirito Santo state), which had been...

Biofuels and Small Farmers
Victor M. Quintana S. | August 29, 2007

Translated from: Biocombustibles y agricultura campesina
Translated by: Annette Ramos

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) americas.irc-online.org

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The biofuels boom is not just another trend or a passing fashion....

5th Congress of Brazil's Landless Movement
Creating the Bases for a New World
Raúl Zibechi | August 23, 2007

Translated from: MST: Crear las bases del mundo nuevo
Translated by: Maria Roof

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org
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The largest social...

Soraia Soriano of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Zapatista Encuentro
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By Juan Trujillo
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
August 13, 2007
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Oventik and Morelia 23rd and 25th July 2007: Within the themes worked on with major interest and intensity in this second encuentro between the...

Dear Friends of the MST,

In this bulletin we want to talk about a very important topic for Brazil: education. But it’s impossible to speak about education without engaging in an important discussion about the economic policy that the Brazilian state has put into practice. An increase in investment in public education is the basis for...

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