Tag: farming
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
To Grow as Agricultural Power Brazil Needs to Fix Transport Bottlenecks
To create conditions for Brazilian farmers to plan their medium and long-term activities and, ...
500 Exhibitors and 60,000 Visitors to Grace Brazil’s Family Farming Fair
Cheese, grain, salami and handicraft from states like Santa Catarina, in southeastern Brazil, and ...
Brazil’s Lula Says There’s Enough Money to Settle 400,000 Farming Families
The Brazilian federal government plans to allocate US$ 4.5 billion for the National Family ...
Brazil Wants Its Biodiesel Program to Be One of Social Inclusion
Contracts between Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras and four biodiesel refineries are expected to ...
Why Are American Farmers Moving to Brazil? Try Cheap Land
To increase profits, some farmers change what they grow. But some farmers in the ...
One Third of Brazil’s Crops Come from Family Farms
A study by Brazil’s Economic Research Institute Foundation (FIPE) reveals that family farming, although ...
