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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...
Agri-bonanza’s ripples – Church cautiously watches ethanol boom
By Barbara J. Fraser
8/16/2007
Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)
DOURADOS, Brazil (CNS) – As the bus rolls along between endless fields of corn on the highway from Campo Grande to Dourados, it is...
Biofuels menace rainforests
The arguments against burning crops for energy gather momentum
August 17, 2007 10:00 AM
Substituting fossil fuels with biofuels will not only add more carbon to the atmosphere, but will destroy primary forests, biodiversity and livelihoods, writes Tristan Farrow. The study, published in this week's...
Brazil rejects reports of Amazon logging in camps
21 Aug 2007 21:13:51 GMT
Source: Reuters
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By Raymond Colitt
BRASILIA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's government rejected accusations on Tuesday that its settlement of poor peasants in the Amazon was fueling the destruction of the world's largest rain forest but...