By Global Issues CONGO, Brazil, Dec 04 (IPS) – In the municipality of Congo, in the state of Paraiba, in the driest territory of Brazil’s semi-arid region, an original initiative seeks to prove it is possible to overcome several challenges concerning family farming. It is the EcoProductive Pilot Project. Read the full story, “Rural Laboratory […]
By Global Issues Dec 04 (IPS) – CIVICUS discusses threats to the security, rights and ancestral lands of Brazil’s quilombola communities with Wellington Gabriel de Jesus dos Santos, leader and activist of the Pitanga dos Palmares Quilombola community in Bahia state. Read the full story, “Quilombola Communities Live in Fear Because the Laws That Are […]
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and ELÉONORE HUGHES Brazil’s Federal Police have formally accused former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others of plotting a coup to keep him in office. Source: The Seattle Times Category: World