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Diálogo Chino • 7th October 2020

The murky process of licensing the Amazon's meatpackers

Meatpackers in the Amazon are eyeing the Chinese market, but getting certified to export is often the result of intense pressure and neglect of environmental requirements.

TIME • 21st May 2020

Brazil Is Starting to Lose the Fight Against Coronavirus

Unlike the previous global hot spots – Italy, Spain and the U.S. – Brazil is an emerging economy, with a weaker social safety net that makes it harder for local authorities to persuade people to stay home.

TIME • 6th April 2020

Brazil's President Insists the Coronavirus Is Overblown. Governors Are Fighting Back

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is in a class of his own. He is the only leader left to reject the consensus of scientists and statisticians on the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak.

TIME • 9th October 2019

Tipping point. The Amazon rainforest is disappearing

On the Southern crest of the unscathed Amazon rain forest, a storm inundates a wooden shack just off a sodden mud road.

The Guardian • 16th August 2018

Murder of indigenous leader highlights threat to way of life

Indigenous people in the Amazon are mourning the murder of a community leader who campaigned to protect the forest from logging amid escalating violence.

DW.COM • 23rd July 2018

A South Korean organic food 'paradise' in Brazil

A brand new golf cart is parked at a gas station in the Brazilian rural town of Formosa do Rio Preto. An improvised paper is stuck on its back, reading: "Propriedade dos Coreanos," Portuguese for "Property of the Koreans."

The Guardian • 5th April 2018

The apps that map violence – and keep Rio residents out of the crossfire

Rejecting official information channels, Rio’s citizens are navigating their city using crowdsourced data on shootings and robberies as they happen.

BBC News • 6th September 2017

Brazil 'surfing war photographer' a fraud

Eduardo Martins' story was too perfect even for the world of internet celebrity until a BBC Brasil investigation found out that Eduardo Martins was a completely fictitious character.

Brazilian Cerrado: who owns the land?

Mongabay News • 28th March 2018

Brazil: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation

Harvard’s fund investments steeped in accusations of forged land titles, illegal deforestation, and expulsion of small-scale farmers from their homes.

Mongabay News • 19th March 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Traditional communities are also reliant on the Cerrado’s aquifers and streams. But as agribusiness has moved into the region, putting large-scale irrigation into operation, those communities have complained of a diminishing water supply.

Mongabay News • 26th March 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Luís Eduardo Magalhães (LEM) is a soy boomtown, built on Cerrado agribusiness. But LEM has suffered growing pains as the people from rural areas have rushed there seeking jobs and opportunities.

Conservation news • 15th March 2018

Cerrado: can agribusiness coexist with savannah conservation?

With new deforestation due to soy production markedly reduced in recent years by Brazilian laws and by the 2006 Amazon Soy Moratorium, agribusiness, transnational commodities companies like Bunge and Cargill, and investors have shifted their attention to the Cerrado, savannah.

Mongabay News • 22nd March 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Typically lacking legal deeds to these lands, the geraizeiros have increasingly come into conflict with agribusiness expansion.

Mongabay News • 12th March 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Long undervalued by scientists and environmental activists, researchers are today realizing that the Cerrado is incredibly biodiverse. The biome supports more than 10,000 plant species, over 900 bird and 300 mammal species.

WNYC Studios • 2nd May 2018

Audio: Harvard Endowment Linked to Land Grab in Brazil

Podcast reports on the connection of Harvard University with land grabbing in Brazil - based on our original investigation.

Mongabay • 17th April 2018

Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region

Podcast interview about the series of reports published in Mongabay News.

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Brazil’s Oi in play: who are the key players?
NII reignites Brazil sale talks
LatAm telco explores tower sale
Two telcos eye Colombia’s ETB
Oi resolution imminent?
Sawiris proposal for Oi to expire
Brazilian telco shortlists bidders

Exclusive interview: Oi CEO discusses M&A

Marco Schroeder expects to agree on a recovery plan that allows the company to boost growth through new partnerships and M&A while selling various non-core assets.

TMTFinance • 16th December 2016

Fintech: will the UK lose its crown?

TMT Finance reporter Flavia Milhorance talks to investors and entrepreneurs about what Britain's departure from the European Union could mean for the country’s development of its leading position in the market.

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