More than half of the world’s rangeland is damaged and one-sixth of humanity’s food supply is in danger, according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. The sources of the ...

The number of conflicts over land, water or forest territories grew in Brazil in 2023, reaching 2,203 cases and impacting more than 950,000 people, according to the bishops' conference's Land Pastoral ...

Para is one of Brazil’s most resource-rich states, part of the country’s immense Amazonian region. It is, however, also one of Brazil’s most violent states. In 2008 alone, 13 people were assassinated ...

BRASILIA — Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital on Tuesday to protest what they say are violations of their land rights by large corporations advancing farming, logging and ...

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 ...

Families gather at a land occupation encampment in Paraná, Brazil, in 1996, at the start of a decadeslong dispute. (Arquivo MST/PR via Courthouse News) RIO DE JANEIRO (CN) — Geovane Cardoso was 7 ...

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 ...

The Apyterewa Indigenous Territory has been under federal protection since 2007, but in recent years has become one of the most deforested reserves in Brazil, as loggers, ranchers and miners have ...

At the end of May, Brazilian lawmakers approved legislation that would invalidate Indigenous land claims and open protected Indigenous lands to mining, road-building, agriculture, and other extractive ...

A study that looked at changes in forest cover in 129 Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest between 1995 and 2016 has found that deforestation rates were lower and reforestation rates ...