Brazil’s president has slashed forest and indigenous protections in his first 100 days. As a major importer of soya and beef, the EU should check his power.
… EU must defend Brazil's indigenous people Nicole Polsterer … | 17th April 2019 News EU Indigneous People Brazil Thought Leaders amazon_indigenous_kate_fisher_800.jpg Brazil’s president has slashed forest and …
Amazon threat from soybean expansion delayed for a year - but 8 million hectares of unprotected forest at risk from 2015 pending new measures.
… Brazil extends Amazon protection from soy … The Ecologist | 3rd January 2014 News Amazon Brazil Food Farming Forests soy-rondonia.png … new measures. A landmark moratorium on Brazilian soya that was set to end on the last …
Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.
… approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal. September offered … for the Amazon, according to new data from Brazil’s State Secretariat for the Environment … are a relief to environmentalists after Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s shocking …
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
… Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern' … Saes EnvJustice | 14th March 2019 News Brazil Mining Disaster Dam Thought Leaders … behind a recent massive mining incident in Brazil. The failure of their Brumadinho …
Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.
… Para state had, in a show of solidarity with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, reportedly … has been squarely placed on the shoulders of Brazil’s new far-right president, who is a … The vast majority of the deforestation in Brazil and other Amazon states has been due to …
Despite the lack of traceability in the supply chain, the assurances of cattle producers that they are not involved in the illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is apparently enough for Tesco, a letter to the Guardian reveals
… Take Action Amazon Deforestation Tesco ABRAS Brazil Leather Meat Food Wal-Mart Ikea … in the Amazon, despite an assertion from the Brazilian Association of Supermarkets (ABRAS) … had ‘sought and received assurances from [its Brazilian suppliers] that the beef products …
UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation.
… of Investigative Journalism . Marfrig, a Brazilian meat company that has supplied … make.” In January, inspectors from Ibama, Brazil’s environmental watchdog, found cattle … by the largest number of forest fires in Brazil this year. The land where the cattle …
Jairo Restrepo is a leading champion of organic farming in Brazil, writes JuanFran Lopez, and now his influence has spread across the world. His mission too has expanded to include campaigning for the rights of small scale farmers, and an even wider project of economic, technological and societal transformation to put people at the centre of political power.
… | 27th July 2015 Comment Food Farming Organic Brazil South America jairo-4-cut.jpg Jairo … is a leading champion of organic farming in Brazil, writes JuanFran Lopez, and now his … Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul in Brazil, where he was employed for many years. …
The US looks set to approve GM crops that resist the 'Agent Orange' pesticide 2,4-D as well as glyphosate, writes Helena Paul. If it does, the toxic chemical - created in WW2 to destroy enemy food supplies - will soon end up in animal feeds, and the food we eat.
… 2,4D Helena Paul | 8th May 2014 News GMOs USA Brazil Argentina Toxics Farming Food EU crop … agricultural warfare Yet the US and Brazil are currently considering whether to … litres) today". [6] Over the same period, Brazil, where GM crops are grown on 36 million …
Satisfaction was at an all-time low in large capitalist democracies including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.
… democracies including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. Dissatisfaction … including the UK, America, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. The data set … largest democracy (Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil) to openly entertain nostalgia for …
WHO's official recognition of the health damage caused by glyphosate, the world's most widely used herbicide, is having ramifications around the world, writes Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji. National governments are moving to restrict the chemical, campaigns to ban it are intensifying, and now 'Roundup Ready' GMO crops are coming under the regulatory spotlight.
… bans, protests, and fresh calls for bans Brazil is facing growing pressure to follow … country's public state prosecutor writing to Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency … 3. "Dutch Parliament bans Roundup, France and Brazil to follow", The Healthy Home Economist …
Campaigners against GM foods have long reviled 'terminator technology' - GM plants whose seeds are engineered never to grow. But are fears of the so-called 'suicide seeds' misplaced?
… that new legislation under consideration in Brazil could lead to 'suicide seeds' that … farmers around the world" . But the truth in Brazil is very different to this media … renewed activist myth-making. It is true that Brazil is considering relaxing regulations …
MP's report leaves environmentalists facing a dilemma, should they allow GM crop trials or not?
… Food And Farming Science And Technology Gm Brazil Food Politics And Economics soil.jpg … for increasing agricultural production in Brazil in particular was strong - with a … MPs expressed concern that not only could Brazil's infrastructure not cope with a major …
Rice-eating peoples are very particular about the rice their diets are based on, writes Ted Greiner. And they have a strong aversion to yellow grains, the tell-tale sign of the deadly mould that causes beri-beri disease. That alone makes GMO 'Golden Rice' a non starter; 107 Nobel Laureates had better start eating their words.
… male sugar workers in the Maranhao region of Brazil ( Rosa et al., 2010 ). Is that really a … that the epidemic and accompanying deaths in Brazil were due to the mould, just that the … in rice in the area of the outbreak. However, Brazilian authorities we talked with in 2007 …
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.
… cheap imports, particularly from Thailand and Brazil. In the late 1980s chicken farmers … countries. Small poultry farmers in Brazil and Thailand are being squeezed out by … import cheap frozen chicken from Thailand and Brazil. The meat has often been salted, …
Genetically modified food is flooding into the UK through the back door. Few consumers know that the meat and dairy products they eat may have been made from animals fed a diet containing GM crops.
… used is grown in South America , including Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, where … feed is disputed. Producers organisations in Brazil maintain there is an ample supply of …
Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers, writes Colin Todhunter. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
… of paying Indonesian, Malaysian, American and Brazilian farmers from where India imports … and Malaysia and soybean oil from the US, Brazil and Argentina. Notwithstanding the … on palm oil in Indonesia and this on soy in Brazil), soybean imports are expected to grow …
A 'harmonic convergence' in the Mayan calendar set off something big for Craig Sams and his Belizean partners. First, Green & Blacks chocolate - and now an even more ambitious project to restore the world's soils using biochar and organic farming systems.
… being planted in Malaysia and 125,000 in Brazil's Bahia state. Happily, it all ended in … the hill tribes of Thailand and Laos. The Brazilian cacao was wiped out by 'witches … remain in Malaysia and the remnants in Brazil have adopted non-industrial …
There is a scandal here...policy makers are calling vast monocultures ‘forest restoration’.
… Together, those countries, which include Brazil, India and China, have already … natural forests, at 14.6 million hectares; Brazil has pledged 19 million hectares of new …
Governments must shift subsidies and research funding from agro-industrial monoculture to small farmers using 'agroecological' methods, according to the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. And as Nafeez Ahmed notes, her call coincides with a new agroecology initiative within the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation.
… of France, Algeria, Costa Rica, Japan, Brazil and the European Union agricultural … as possible." Prof Sergio Sauer, formerly Brazil's National Rapporteur for Human Rights … it is a sustainable livelihood. "In Brazil we have the National Association of …
To accommodate high levels of Roundup residues in GM soya, limits were raised 200-fold - with no scientific justification and ignoring growing evidence of toxicity. What Monsanto calls 'extreme levels' are now the norm - but only in GM crops.
… metric tons, with the United States (33%), Brazil (29%), Argentina (19%), China (5%) and … or where such commodities are imported. In Brazil, the MRL in soybean was increased from …
The amazon fires must give rise to action from individuals, corporations and governments.
… much of the power of invasive agribusiness. Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation has a … In the eloquent words of Elaine Brum, Brazilian journalist and novelist: “Bolsonaro … forge communities like those established by Brazil’s escaped slaves.” So what can you do? …
Standard Chartered's sponsorship of Liverpool FC is a cynical attempt to buy a social license to profit from fossil fuel finance.
… roots and global appeal: Alisson Becker (Brazil), Virgil Van Dijk (Netherlands), Joel Matip (Cameroon), Fabinho (Brazil), Naby Keita (Guinea), Sadio Mane …
It' a perfect win-win solution for World Food Day, writes Kirtana Chandrasekaran: agroecology that sequesters carbon into soils, making them more fertile, productive and resilient, while also supporting sustainable livelihoods and tackling climate change. But instead governments are desperately trying to attract agribusiness investment that does the precise opposite.
… the Prosavannah investment exchange between Brazil, Japan and Mozambique requires the … in Mozambique from small scale producers. Brazilian agribusinesses will use this to … same model of farming that is responsible for Brazil's top spot in global pesticide use and …