Brazil News » Mato Grosso News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: Brazil’s Mato Grosso Farmers Sue Global Grain Traders Over Soy Moratorium Agreement
Brazil’s Mato Grosso farmers lobby Aprosoja-MT has filed a lawsuit against global grain companies over Brazil’s so-called “soy moratorium,” a voluntary agreement by traders that bans the purchase of ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: Brazilian prosecutors investigate illegal use of native wood in corn ethanol production
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso is investigating whether corn ethanol plants are burning wood from illegal deforestation to produce the biofuel, running counter to ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: Mato Grosso Government (Brazil) and O.N.E. Amazon Join Forces to Protect the Amazon Through an Innovative Conservation Finance Model
The agreement includes actions to join technical, administrative, and financial efforts to promote the conservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Cristalino I and II State Parks in the Amazon ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: Gunmen and Farmers Attack Indigenous People in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul
In Brazil, a group of armed assailants and farmers over the weekend attacked Indigenous communities that had reclaimed stolen land in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The violent rampage left at least ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Legislation in effect since Jan. 1 has banned fishing in Mato Grosso state rivers for five years, with heavy opposition from environmental ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Security: Brazil: Pesticide Bill Threatens Health, Livelihoods
(São Paulo) – The legislature of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an industrial agriculture hub, is considering a bill that would drastically reduce buffer zones meant to limit communities’ ...