Authoritarianism a Threat to Brazilians Right to Food
FIAN Brazil launches report exposing how authoritarianism has drastically eroded the right to food in the country.
Agribusiness
“Burning the Amazon is a crime against humanity,” Via Campesina Brazil
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
Brazil approved more new pesticides in 200 days than European Union did in 8 years
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 Union did in eight years.
Since January 2019, Brazil has sanctioned 239 new agrochemicals, while the EU has approved 229 since 2011, the ex-president of the Brazilian Association for Agrarian Reform (ABRA), Gerson Teixeira, wrote.
Trial for the Eviction at Quilombo Campo Grande Encampment
Trial will be Thursday, July 11, after urgent request of the eviction accepted by Judge Walter Zwicker Esbaile Junior in 2018
Justice denies eviction of Quilombo Campo Grande encampment
The Court considered that the company claiming the land had already given up its possession at a conciliation meeting July 12, 2019.
The Minas Gerais Court of Justice (TJMG) decided on Thursday (July 11) to suspend the reintegration of the Quilombo Campo Grande encampment, located in the municipality of Campo do Meio, in the south of the state.
Brazil’s natural resources are targets for a capitalism in crisis, says MST leader
In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape
Unions and movements take to the streets in Brazil against attacks on pension system
Protests in at least 126 cities show that organizations are not happy about changes that will hurt social rights
On the end of the public retirement and rural workers
They want to create the idea that there is a gap in foresight and that rural workers are the main culprits.
We need to fight against the destruction of the Public Pension System. PEC 06/2019 proposed by the Bolsonaro government to the legislature is an affront to social rights and affects mainly women, teachers and rural workers.
“I do not sleep without a gun,” says Secretary of Land Affairs
Responsible for land reform, Nabhan Garcia defends weapons in the field, promises to close MST schools and says he will not negotiate with the movement.
Brazilian state of Ceará bans aerial crop dusting
Movements celebrated measure and will now fight for agroecological farming to replace current fruit production system
The governor of Ceará, Camilo Santana, signed a bill into law this week banning crop dusting in the northern Brazilian state. The measure was welcomed by people’s movements that have been exposing the problems of pesticide abuse in the area.