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Farming is the planet’s biggest driver of deforestation, and beef and soya production the prime culprits. The lion’s share of deforestation caused by these commodities is in Latin America, and Germany’s responsibility is considerable.
17/01/2019
The views of the man on the brink of leading the planet’s fourth largest democracy have attracted global notoriety since his shock victory in Brazil’s first-round presidential election earlier this month.
Jair Bolsonaro would...
26/10/2018
20/09/2018
Spurred on by a wave of food scandals - as well as rising consumer anxieties over the environment and animal welfare - major retailers across Europe are sourcing more of their meat from local, sustainable sources. It should be a...
26/03/2018
“The Time is now: rural and urban activists transforming women's lives.”
This is not the title of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) campaign, but the theme of this year’s United Nations International Women’s Day, which...
16/03/2018
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A expansão da agricultura está devastando as florestas do mundo.
No Brasil, a derrubada de florestas para dar lugar ao cultivo de soja no intuito de alimentar um mercado de exportação insaciável também gerou violações de direitos...
09/01/2018
When it comes to global trade, it is difficult to overestimate the EU’s importance. It is the world’s second largest importer (after the US), and the second largest exporter (after China), and has an overall share of world trade...
26/06/2017
In the five years between 2010 and 2015, EU consumption raized an area of forests the size of Portugal. In 2012 alone, the EU imported EUR 6 billion of soy, palm, leather, and beef produced on forests illegally converted to...
Representantes de vários países se reuniram em 22 de março em Brasília para a Assembleia Geral Anual da Aliança para Florestas Tropicais 2020 (TFA 2020 em inglês), uma coalizão global de governos, ONGs e empresas, cujo objetivo é...
07/04/2017
Whether one global mega-corporation succeeds in buying another global mega-corporation is not normally a subject of much interest to environmentalists.
Kraft Heinz’s rapidly abandoned US $143 billion tilt at Unilever is...
07/03/2017
