Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, May 31, the Brazilian Senate approved Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759), which deals with land regularization for rural, urban and Amazonian lands. It now moves ahead for presidential approval. The measure […]
Clique aqui para Português On Monday, June 5, World Environment Day, a new community garden was launched in the Cantagalo favela. Cássia Oliveira, executive coordinator of the NGO Harmonicanto: Música e Cidadania (Harmony and Song: Music […]
Clique aqui para Português On December 22, 2016, President Michel Temer revised a law that specifically regularizes urban and rural land owned by the federal government, notably eliminating requirements for upgrading infrastructure on those lands. The […]
Clique aqui para Português A majority of the world’s population now lives in urban centers. As we have distanced ourselves from rural life, many people have lost direct contact with agriculture and the process of […]
Clique aqui para Português It’s an old story to anyone familiar with Rio’s favelas and their history: the first favela was founded in 1897, when veterans of the Canudos War, most of them former slaves, […]