FIAN Brazil launches report exposing how authoritarianism has drastically eroded the right to food in the country.
In 2014 Brazil was officially removed from the FAO/UN Hunger Map, a significant achievement for a country still considered a “developing nation.” Nonetheless, authoritarianism’s hold on power further aggravated the setbacks put in place after the coup in 2016.
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
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 will be Thursday, July 11, after urgent request of the eviction accepted by Judge Walter Zwicker Esbaile Junior in 2018
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.
In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape
Protests in at least 126 cities show that organizations are not happy about changes that will hurt social rights
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.
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.
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.
