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Brazil in Focus: What does Bolsonaro mean for ‘bad ag’ and the forests?
06.12.2018 With an aggressive agribusiness lobby tapped into the political establishment, the picture for the forests of Brazil is looking bleak
One of Brazil’s most important river basins under pressure from illegal cattle ranching, soy plantations and mining
31.10.2018 Increasing levels of deforestation in the Xingu river basin in states of Pará and Mato Grosso connected to cattle ranching, soy plantations and gold mining
International investment driving land grabbing, human rights violations and environmental destruction in Brazilian Cerrado
31.10.2018 A recent report by FIAN International and Brazilian organisations has drawn attention to the relationship between global finance, land grabbing and agribusiness expansion
Illegal deforestation in northern Argentina continues despite Environment Ministry’s intervention
31.10.2018 Greenpeace has once again detected illegal forest clearing in Argentina’s northern province of Salta, one of the most deforested in the country
Global markets help sustain political power of agribusiness lobby in Brazil’s congress
25.09.2018 A damning report by Amazon Watch has shed light on the commercial links between European and US companies and agribusinesses in Brazil connected to illegalities
Major ag traders fined for buying grain from illegally deforested land in Cerrado
24.07.2018 Cargill and Bunge, along with other traders and farmers fined $29m by Brazilian authorities for buying grain from illegally deforested areas in the Cerrado
EU urged to regulate to stem deforestation in cocoa industry
13.07.2018 MEPs and NGOs urged the European Union to regulate to stem deforestation in the cocoa industry after the failure of voluntary measures
Communities denounce violence and human rights violations in the Brazilian Cerrado
28.03.2018 Civil society organisations issue statement denouncing the “alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities
Asian governments backing deforestation in Gabon and Cameroon
22.03.2018 An extract from Earthsight's The Coming Storm report exposes the connections between the Singaporean and Chinese governments and two of the projects which have cleared the most forest to-date
