Tag: Brazil

It remains to be seen if Fernando Haddad can rally the country to prevent a Bolsonaro presidency.

What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements – and the order they seek to replace.

This commitment will spare millions of egg-laying hens a life of extreme confinement in battery cages so small that the birds can barely move or stretch their wings.

The decision prohibits the registration of new products containing the herbicide and suspends existing registrations within the next 30 days.

That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.

The dream of more just and equal societies that the far from radical Lula represented for many seems further away than ever.

With the mission of reducing the cities' environmental footprint (especially water consumption), Brazil's goal is to aid local produce farmers and foster humane and healthy eating habits for students.

The United States Department of Agriculture suspended fresh beef imports from Brazil until the country “takes corrective action” to address “public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues” in its cattle supply chain.

As of 2015 there were 38 countries that had banned GM crops.

“In the struggle to make this world the place of peace, justice and environmental sustainability that it could be, the people of Brazil have been playing an inspirational role.”