Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava SÃO PAULO, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – Energy integration in South America will be a reality "in the medium to long term," driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. [...]
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening [...]
Brazilian Favela Becomes a Living Museum
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) – The history, daily life and folk artistry as well as spectacular views of this southeastern Brazilian city are all part of a living museum created by community leaders in a favela that is displaying its cultural heritage [...]
Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) – With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit’s draft final document, which aim to transfer its successful national social and [...]
BRAZIL: Small-Scale Land Speculators Contribute to Amazon Deforestation
July 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 28, 2011 (Tierramérica) – Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found. This on-the-ground reality and the [...]
Navigating Challenges, Brazil Steps Up AIDS Response
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Whitman UNITED NATIONS, Jun 25, 2011 (IPS) – Long heralded as a model for the global response to HIV/AIDS, Brazil is intensifying its actions, at home and abroad, in the face of potential setbacks including an arising need for new treatment regimens, the resultant increase in [...]
BRAZIL: Protected Witness Speaks Out – Part 1
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – Despite the risks involved, a man who is under the witness protection programme in Brazil and his wife decided to tell their story to IPS, to denounce flaws in a system that, in their case, has added [...]
BRAZIL: Amazon Dams Mean Progress for Some, Lost Livelihoods for Others
May 25, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava * PORTO VELHO, Brazil, May 25, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The Amazonian town of Mutum-Paraná, in the northern Brazilian state of Rondônia, is disappearing. Its last remaining buildings must be dismantled before it is flooded by the construction of the Jirau hydroelectric dam on the Madeira [...]
BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fertilises Its Own Soil
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava* RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil, Apr 12, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical [...]
