For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon ...

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 ...

Brazil eclipsed the U.S. in soybean production in 2017 and has consistently outproduced it since, capturing about 40% of ...

Amnesty International (AI) welcomed on Tuesday Itaipu Binacional’s decision to finance the restitution of indigenous land in Brazil to the Avá Guaraní Paranaense people (“the Avá Guaraní”). These ...

RIO PRETO, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazilian farmer Ivan Engler shakes his head at the thought of renting out his land, where he grows sweet potato and passion fruit, despite overtures ...

FILE - A section of Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File) (Leo Correa, Copyright ...

Brazil recently announced a plan to restore an area of degraded land about half the size of the U.K. by 2030, in a bid to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. The Planaveg 2.0 initiative, ...

Brazil’s quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation’s vast Amazon and Atlantic rainforests for centuries. Today, the quilombolas number about 1.3 ...

The land is the greatest asset we have,” said Luzineth Pataxó, a Pataxó leader from the Caramuru-Paraguaçu Indigenous ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — For nearly 20 years, Brazil’s largest soy producers assured buyers that their harvest — the world’s biggest — wasn’t grown on land cleared from Amazonian forests. The pledge, known as ...