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Obituary: it died on the night of Tuesday, 12/6/11, the victim of being run-over multiple times by Congress. The body will spend the summer in the morgue, as some propose its...
The Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) received the 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize. Inaugurated in 2009, the Food 
Sovereignty Prize, awarded by the Community Food Security Coalition at...
MST leader Elias Araujo was in the US to accept, on behalf of the MST the Food Sovereignty Prize for 2011, given by the Community Food ...
With 15 votes, five requests for diligence and two abstentions, the National Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) approved on the 
morning of Thursday (September 15, 2011), the commercial release of transgenic...
Everywhere in the world large multinationals determine the political game. One of the biggest global players is Bayer AG, present in all countries. The former subsidiaries of IG Farben (BASF, Bayer and Hoechst) dominate the...
by Gerson Teixeira
Groups representing rural workers are negotiating measures with the government which would ease rural-credit debts owed by settled and family farmers.
These...
La Via Campesina (a sister organization of MST) presents a political platform to the federal government of Brazil which includes emergency measures, medium term...
The Guarani aquifer, the source of 100% of the water serving Riberao Preto, a city in the northeast of Sao Paulo state located 313km from the state capital, is threatened by...
By Raumi Souza
The second annual Fair of Family Agriculture took place between the 22nd - 24th of July in Itaetê located in the Chapada Diamantina region of Bahia. The event, in conjunction with the Traditional...
By Luís Osete
Why is Brazil the largest consumer of agritoxins in the world? Are there any alternatives to the agricultural model which poisons crops in Vale do São Francisco? Until when will we...