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DEVELOPMENT: Brazil Uses Genome in Bid for Tenderest Beef
Cattle that are more disease resistant, mature earlier and produce the tenderest beef is the aim of the Cattle Functional Genome Project, which could give Brazil the technological footing for future leadership on the global beef market.BRAZIL-COLOMBIA: Inequality as Much a Cause of Violence as Drugs
The rise in violent crime in the cities of Brazil and Colombia in the past few decades is often squarely blamed on organised crime and drug trafficking. But would the bloodbath come to an end if the drug trade suddenly disappeared?BRAZIL-COLOMBIA: Inequality as Much a Cause of Violence as Drugs
The rise in violent crime in the cities of Brazil and Colombia in the past few decades is often squarely blamed on organised crime and drug trafficking. But would the bloodbath come to an end if the drug trade suddenly disappeared?ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: A Hybrid Revolution on Wheels
Brazil is hopping on the bus in the new era of electric hybrid vehicles, which some experts say will revolutionise the automobile industry in the coming years, thanks to their energy efficiency and other environmentally-friendly advantages.Brazil Aims for Most Tender Beef
In 18 months, Brazilian scientists expect to have figured out the genetic puzzle that will allow their country to raise cattle that are more resistant to disease and produce better beef.CULTURE-BRAZIL: Land of Grand Book Fairs and Poor Reading Habits
The exuberance of the 11th Biennial International Book Fair, which opens Thursday in this Brazilian city, contrasts sharply with the limited domestic market for publishers and the weak reading habits of the population of Latin America's giant.BRAZIL: Cupuacu – The Amazon Fruit That Lost Its Name
The move by a Japanese firm to register the name of the Amazon fruit cupuaçu as its own trademark has added fuel to the international campaign against what is known as biopiracy and to efforts to recuperate the name of this natural product for the public domain.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Half-Million Girls Work as Domestic ‘Slaves’
A campaign is underway in Brazil to quash the notion that hiring a girl to work in one's home is "normal". The estimated half-million female minors working as maids - often without pay - are the focus of a new effort by national and international institutions to stop child labour./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: Inmates Sent to Slaughter
"Carandirú", the new sensation at the Brazilian box office, recounts the story of the country's worst prison massacre while also attempting to demonstrate the human side of those who lived under their own laws in the "prison-slaughterhouse" that gives the film its name.CULTURE-BRAZIL: Artists Rebel Against State Aid Stipulations
The Brazilian art world has risen up against the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which it helped elect, for a proviso that state cultural agencies will only invest in projects that have a "social side".LATIN AMERICA: Brazil an Exception to Trade Union Crisis
The hard times that have befallen Latin American trade unions, dating to the early 1990s, have been aggravated in recent years by political factors in the region, but Brazil has proved a notable exception./MAY DAY/ LABOUR-LATAM: Brazil an Exception to Trade Union Crisis
The hard times that have befallen Latin American trade unions, dating to the early 1990s, have been aggravated in recent years by political factors in the region, but Brazil has proved a notable exception.TRADE: US Treats Brazil with Kid Gloves, Despite Criticism on Iraq
Brazil's persistent opposition to the foreign policy decisions and actions of the United States and ongoing trade disputes between the two countries do not appear to have affected bilateral relations nor the shared interest in negotiating continent-wide free trade./MAY DAY/RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Rural Slavery Tough to Root Out
An estimated 25,000 men, women and children continue to work today as slave labourers in rural Brazil, despite persistent complaints by human rights organisations and promises by the new government to eradicate the practice over the next four years.IRAQ: Latin American Media Provided Balanced Coverage, say Experts
Coverage of the war on Iraq in Latin America has been marked by efforts to send correspondents from the region despite the economic crisis, and by a largely successful attempt at balance, according to analysts.BRAZIL: MST Marches for Land Rights, Against Impunity of Murders
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra) has launched a campaign "against large landed estates" and the impunity of a spate of rural murders, using tactics like land takeovers and marches of 100 to 1,000 people along the country's roadways, heading to the state capitals.ENVIRONMENT: Recycling Waste Tires – a Growing Business in Brazil
The business of recycling used tires, especially for the production of fuel utilised by industry, has been growing in Brazil, due to a regulation that requires tire manufacturers to ensure that they are disposed of in a manner that does not harm the environment.MERCOSUR-EU: War in Iraq Favours Trade Accord
The new global context emerging from the war in Iraq will tend to benefit a trade agreement between Mercosur (Southern Cone Common Market) and the European Union (EU), say experts and business leaders in Brazil, the largest of the South American bloc's partners.TRADE: Peru Seeks Ties with Mercosur, Brazil’s Eyes on Pacific
For Brazil, Peru presents the shortest route to the full integration of South America and to the markets of Asia, through the Andean nation's Pacific ocean ports.“The anthill from below and from above”
Brazil's environment minister, Marina Silva, comes from a movement that "defends the jungles inseparably from the people who live in them." And that means "introducing all aspects of sustainable development into the heart of government," she told Tierramérica.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Sales Open for Illegal GM Soy
Brazil will permit the sale of genetically modified soy harvested this year in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, even though it was planted illegally. Consumer defence and environmental groups are outraged.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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