Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava SERTÃOZINHO, Brazil, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – "A disappointment" was his first impression of his new city. It was small, half the size of his hometown of Barretos, and had "weak lights," says Marcelo Pelegrini, remembering his family’s move to this southern Brazilian city when [...]
BRAZIL: Science and Sugar Cane Produce Versatile Harvest
April 4, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava PIRACICABA, Brazil, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS) – For nearly five hundred years, sugar cane was used almost exclusively for making sugar, with a handful of by-products like rum, alcohol and molasses. Now, in Brazil, it has become a source of multiple derivatives, and the focus [...]
Sugar Cane and Ethanol Boom Drives Development in Southern Brazil
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – The roads are exceptionally good and numerous here, in contrast with other parts of Brazil, but the monotony of the landscape is not inviting to tourists. Sugar cane fields stretch to the horizon along a 400-km stretch [...]
BRAZIL-US: Libya Attack Sours Obama-Rousseff Meeting
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – The first black president of the United States visited the first woman president of Brazil: their meeting resulted in modest progress in bilateral relations, but a bitter taste could not be avoided over the announcement, in Brazil, [...]
Businesses in Brazil Rediscover "Route to the Indies"
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 12, 2011 (IPS) – Companies from Brazil and India — whose bilateral trade flow rose nearly threefold in the last three years — are starting to diversify and complement their business dealings in order to strengthen the two emerging powers’ economic [...]
Brazilian Agriculture Can Help Combat Hunger and Inflation
March 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava* RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 11, 2011 (Tierramérica) – The current rise in agricultural prices, which now overshadows the increase seen in 2008, highlights the contribution that Brazil could make towards curbing the growing hunger and inflation that are threatening the world once again. The Brazilian [...]
Saving Family Business with Employees’ Support
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsFeature TOKYO (IDN) – Now an eminent CEO in Tokyo’s Mitaka City, Masashi Takeuchi vividly recalls his days in Brazil’s sprawling Sao Paulo, where he worked as a reporter for a newspaper that was rather popular with the Japanese community. "My life was [...]
Brazil Opposed to Military Options in Libya Crisis
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 4, 2011 (IPS) – Brazil, firmly opposed to a militarisation of the crisis in Libya and in favour of negotiated solutions without foreign intervention, is heading to a Mar. 7-8 ministerial meeting with India and South Africa. At next week’s meeting [...]
BRAZIL: Women Scientists Abound – But Not at Senior Levels
March 4, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet* RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 4, 2011 (IPS) – There are nearly as many female as male scientists in Brazil. But in academia or in private laboratories, women face subtle barriers to career advancement and equal salaries. According to the National Council for Scientific and Technological [...]
BRAZIL: Women in "Pacified" Favelas Claim Their Rights
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS) – The peace imposed on the more than 200,000 people living in the Complexo do Alemão group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro by Brazil’s military police is helping to pave the way for the recognition of basic [...]
