Over the past 50 years, Brazil has emerged as one of the world's agricultural giants. Becoming a leading global exporter of soybeans, beef, coffee and sugar has significantly boosted its economy and ...

In early 2023, Fr. Joaquim Parron, a Redemptorist priest in Curitiba, in southern Brazil, rushed to a sprawling encampment outside the city where more than 200 destitute families were squatting on ...

An Indigenous person carries a scale during a march at the annual Free Earth camp where Brazil's Indigenous communities discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30, which will take ...

Thousands of Indigenous people began gathering in Brazil's capital on Monday for what was expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's unfulfilled promises to create ...

Transport costs have made the country’s agriculture industry uncompetitive. But new infrastructure projects should transform the opportunities some have seen in land values. First, for those ...

Armed attackers injured at least 10 Guarani and Kaiowá Indigenous peoples reclaiming their land in Lagoa Rica, Brazil on Saturday. The attackers were mobilized by misinformation on social media ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends the CELAC Summit in Buccament, Saint Vicent and the Grenadines, Friday, March 1, 2024. (Credit: Lucanus Ollivierre/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO, Brazil – ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian federal prosecutors are asking a judge to unwind a 2017 deal handing control of pulp and paper company Eldorado from Brazilian firm J&F to Paper Excellence Group, ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Armed men backed by farmers in trucks and tractors attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil's farming state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the weekend, injuring 11 of them, ...

SAO PAULO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - In Brazil, a man from the Guarani community was shot dead on Wednesday morning, a governmental protection agency for Indigenous communities said, as a land dispute in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil's plan to allow foreigners to buy large tracts of farmland to spur growth in South America's biggest country is being closely monitored by foreign ...

(RNS) — In Brazil, the forced removal of vulnerable people from privately owned land has created a role for Catholic priests as mediators between landowners and beleaguered communities. (RNS) — In ...