A government agreement redistributes once-privately owned land to 3,000 farming families and reflects a broader shift toward negotiated solutions in these types of disputes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Farmers attack Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil SAO PAULO (Reuters) - In Brazil, a man from the Guarani ...

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, the country’s agricultural heartland, vast stretches of lush Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna give way to seemingly endless fields of soy. Located in a transition ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian federal prosecutors are asking a judge to unwind a 2017 deal handing control of pulp and paper company Eldorado from Brazilian firm J&F to Paper Excellence Group, ...

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 ...

On Feb. 3, at the request of an association of the Indigenous Cinta Larga people in the Amazon, the Brazilian Supreme Court ...

While soybean supply may be limited in the short run, it could increase in the long run with the potential for 70 million acres of converted pastureland.

SÃO PAULO – Despite hopes that violent land disputes in Brazil would diminish with the return to power of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, generally seen as more favorable to land reform ...

In early 2023, Fr. Joaquim Parron, a Redemptorist priest in Curitiba, in southern Brazil, rushed to a sprawling encampment outside the city where more than 200 destitute families were squatting on ...

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 ...

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 ...