Stories written by Fabíola Ortiz
Fabíola Ortiz is a Brazilian journalist and reports for IPS from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about human rights, politics, international topics, health, gender and social issues.

MST leader João Pedro Stédile speaking at a public event Credit: Creative Commons Licence - U. Dettmar/Agência Brasil

Q&A: “Brazil Doesn’t Need Poisons to Maintain Food Production”

By Fabíola Ortiz
Brazil could give up its dubious rank as the world’s number one consumer of agrochemicals without decreasing the amount of food it produces for its own people, according to João Pedro Stédile, leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST).
MST leader João Pedro Stédile speaking at a public event. - Creative Commons Licence - U. Dettmar/Agência Brasil

“Brazil Doesn’t Need Poisons to Maintain Food Production”

By Fabíola Ortiz and - -
The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil needs to address problems that go beyond agrarian reform, “which is why we are now involved in agro-ecology and education,” explains MST leader João Pedro Stédile in this interview.
Dilma Rousseff welcomes Barack Obama at Planalto Palace. Credit: Office of the Brazilian president.

BRAZIL-US: Libya Attack Sours Obama-Rousseff Meeting

By Fabíola Ortiz
The first black president of the United States visited the first woman president of Brazil: their meeting resulted in modest progress in bilateral relations, but a bitter taste could not be avoided over the announcement, in Brazil, of the U.S.-led air attack on Libya.

BRAZIL: Women in “Pacified” Favelas Claim Their Rights

By Fabíola Ortiz
The peace imposed on the more than 200,000 people living in the Complexo do Alemão group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro by Brazil's military police is helping to pave the way for the recognition of basic human rights.
Woman at a cooking fire in the Cantagalo indigenous reserve in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Credit: Alejandro Arigón/IPS

BRAZIL: Creation of Native Reserves Slowed Down Under Lula

By Fabíola Ortiz
In Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's eight years as president of Brazil, he signed decrees creating just 88 indigenous reserves, far fewer than his immediate predecessors.
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