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05/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Rebuilding the Amazon forest with chocolate: How cocoa could be the key to making South America green again

For decades, Brazilian ranchers have been part of the wide-scale destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Now, they – and chocolate – could be the keys to make South America green again. According to a Reuters report, many ranchers are planting cocoa trees with the support of environmentalists who believe cocoa plantations can serve as new forests. […]

02/01/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Brazil may soon refuse all GMO imports from the United States

There has been all sorts of talk in recent days about the incoming Trump administration’s refusal to let other countries continue taking advantage of the United States in unfair trade deals. But what about when other countries decide to stop doing trade with the U.S. because the goods we trade them are toxic and destructive? […]

09/11/2015 / By Julie Wilson

Brazil’s national cancer institute takes stand against pesticide use, links weed killer to cancer

Brazil’s national cancer institute recently released a new report in which the agency states that they are against current pesticide practices and the impact that they’re having on public health in their country, especially with regard to cancer. Brazil’s José Alencar Gomes da Silva National Cancer Institute reports: “It is important to highlight that the […]

08/28/2015 / By Greg White

Pesticide use increased 162% in Brazil as GM soy corporations subjugated country to agrochemical imperialism

Brazil’s agricultural sector is on the rise. By the same token, so is its pesticide use. According to the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (Abrasco), there has been an increase of 162.32% in the volume of pesticides in Brazil between 2000 and 2012.(1) In 2009, Brazil earned the title of the world’s largest consumer of […]

08/26/2015 / By Chris Draper

Nearly 2 million Brazilians gather to protest corrupt government, poor economy, as water supplies dry up amid global drought

Hundreds of thousands of protesters met on the streets of Brazil to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. The protest revolts were fueled by government corruption and mismanagement of the economy. According to a survey conducted by the polling firm Datafolha , approximately 66 percent of Brazilians are in favor of the removal […]

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