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BRAZIL: Agrarian Reform for Informal Lands
Brazil is attempting to promote agrarian reform in a rural context in which irregular or unofficial land holdings are widespread and failure to deal with land disputes fuels ongoing violence.LATIN AMERICA: Telecentres for Digital and Social Inclusion
Access to the Internet offered by public telecentres in Sao Paulo, Brazil is not only helping narrow the digital divide, but also fomenting community life in poor neighbourhoods and providing cultural activities and job opportunities for youngsters at risk of falling into crime.BRAZIL-CHINA: Developing World Giants Talk Nuclear Cooperation
The possibility of nuclear cooperation between Brazil and China, discussed during President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's six-day visit to Beijing, has Brazilian experts thinking of opportunity, but environmentalists warn of greater potential for disaster.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Zero Tillage Fights Erosion, Boosts Crop Yields
''The soil was just disappearing from under my feet, and I realised that with another torrential rainfall, I wouldn't have any land to plant on anymore,'' Herbert Bartz, the Brazilian farmer known as the pioneer of the 'zero tillage' system in his country, told IPS.SPORTS: Developing World Abandoned at the Foot of Olympus
The developing world can give up on its dream of hosting future Olympics - That is the message the International Olympic Committee sent when it announced the five cities that are still in the running to host the 2012 summer games.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Landowners Come to the Aid of Atlantic Forests
Some 360 private reserves have been created to protect the forests in the rich Brazilian Atlantic biome, one of the five most endangered in the world. The 'Mata Atlantica' has lost more than 90 percent of the area it covered when Europeans first came to the Americas.BRAZIL: Justice Turns Blind Eye to Sexual Violence Against Children
Araceli Cabrera Crespo was nine years old when she was tortured, raped, strangled to death and burnt with acid by a group of youths under the effect of drugs in Vitoria, the capital of the west-central state of Espíritu Santo, in 1973.BRAZIL: Off To China, In Search of the New El Dorado
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit China May 23-27, heading the biggest trade mission sent by Brazil in search of markets and investment.SOUTH AMERICA: No Consensus on Peacekeeping Troops to Haiti
The countries of the Southern Cone region of South America are sending troops to Haiti to take part in the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, but without the strong internal support usually enjoyed by such missions of solidarity with nations in conflict.
Big Landowners Come to the Aid of Atlantic Forests
Some 360 private reserves have been created to protect the forests in the rich Brazilian Atlantic biome, one of the five most endangered in the world. The Mata Atlantica has lost more than 90 percent of the area it covered when Europeans first came to the Americas.JOURNALISM-BRAZIL: A Drunken Spree of Errors
It is essential "to return the incident to its true dimensions: a case of poor journalism," says the Rio de Janeiro Union of Journalists about the controversy surrounding Brazil's expulsion of New York Times correspondent, Larry Rohter, for his story saying that the Brazilian president is a heavy drinker./ARTS WEEKLY/ FILM-BRAZIL: A Hidden Side of Rio Revealed
"Brazil doesn't know Brazil," says a song by Mauricio Tapajos and Aldir Blanc that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent boom of documentary films seems to indicate that the country has overcome what some said was an unhealthy national syndrome.BRAZIL: Multiple Social Demands Crossed with Financial Instability
Public employees in Brazil launched a strike Monday, stepping up their social demands on a government whose purse strings have been tightened by fiscal adjustments and which is faced with another episode of financial instability.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Beans May Neutralise Transgenic Debate
The heated debate about genetically modified organisms in Brazil just might escape the dead end it had entered with the transgenic soybean controversy, that is, if all goes well with a genetically modified version of a kidney-type bean that is currently undergoing field tests.ENVIRONMENT-MERCOSUR: United Against Mussel Plague
A lesson learned is worth more than a thousand warnings. After the invasion of the region's rivers and waterways, Brazil and its trade partners in the Mercosur bloc have agreed to a joint plan for controlling bilge water, used in ships for stability when sailing without cargo.BRAZIL: Violence in Schools – ‘Most Fights Are Between Girls’
Marcela, an 18-year-old high school student in this Brazilian city, told IPS that most of the fistfights and shouting matches these days in her school are between girls.MAY DAY-BRAZIL: May 1 Culminates Month of Pressure on Leftist Gov’t
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is facing an unusual dilemma for a leftist political leader: whether or not to take part in a rally celebrating International Workers Day on May 1, either in Sao Paulo or in Sao Bernardo do Campo, the city where he emerged as a trade union leader in the 1970s.MAY DAY-BRAZIL: Unions Upset by Minimal Increase of Minimum Wage
Workers in Brazil were given a new reason Thursday to protest the economic policy of the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metal-worker and trade unionist, in the rallies and events scheduled for May 1, International Workers' Day.TRADE-BRAZIL: Cotton Ruling Strengthens the G20
The World Trade Organisation ruling against U.S. cotton subsidies strengthens Brazil's leadership of the Group of 20 (G20), a bloc of developing countries, at a key moment in several trade negotiation processes.SCIENCE-BRAZIL: Coffee Joins the Mapped Genome Club
Brazil has added another trophy to its collection: the completed map of the coffee genome. The coffee bean was the driving force behind the Brazilian economy until the 1940s and the country is still the world's leading producer and exporter of this commodity.HEALTH-BRAZIL: New Offensive Against Asbestos
Mining, industrialisation, sales and use of asbestos should be banned, the Brazilian Ministry of Labour and Employment has stated for the first time. The substance has been banned in 36 countries because it causes lung cancer and other irreversible respiratory ailments.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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