The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating ...

Mato Gross do Sul, Brazil – Plantations in the right places can help biodiversity, increase cattle production, fuel a more sustainable steel industry and improve livelihoods for neighbouring ...

As reported by the BBC, the state government of Pará cleared out eight miles of Amazon rainforest to build the highway. The ...

We've heard plenty about how biodiesel feedstock from palm plantations in SE Asia contributes to forest devastation there, but the cry from Brazil has not been nearly as loud. Of course ...

Brazilian legislation requires farmers to protect certain percentages of their land in different regions in Brazil, according to University of Michigan research scientist Thiago Gonçalves-Souza. Farms ...

Being from the Workers' Party, the one that rules Brazil, the minister affirmed that they couldn't trace workers exploitation on plantations, since some accusations of bad work conditions (and ...

Agribusiness consultancy expects Brazil’s planted soy area to expand 1.1% to 36.3 million hectares, below the average annual growth of 5.2% over the past decade. The area in Brazil to be planted ...