The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement in Latin America.

Abandoned cattle ranches cover huge swathes of Brazil; empty, degraded land, where the soil is like dust and any form of agriculture is impossible. Earlier this year, Brazil announced that it ...

Brazil’s enormous northeast bulge has more people—25 million—than Argentina, more land—597,353 sq. mi.—than all of Central America. If the Northeast was a separate nation, it would rank ...

Brazil should not impose an arbitrary cutoff date that curtails the land rights of Indigenous peoples, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Solicitor General Jorge Messias.

Studies show that the Amazon was the most hit biome in 2024, with 15.6 million hectares burned—the largest area harmed in the ...

By Ana Ionova BOM JARDIM, Brazil – Amid corn fields and pastures, miles of barbed wire enclose an island of pristine rainforest, likely next in line to be razed. Just beyond, in the Gurupi ...

Regulating land tenure is not the only power available to the state for influencing how people use land. Land-use planning and land-use zoning are two closely related mechanisms that Pan Amazonian ...

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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon approaching, thousands of Indigenous people marched Tuesday in Brazil’s capital, demanding the state guarantee and ...

The Future Land Use Map is a part of the city’s Comprehensive Plan, a guide for local land-use and other big-picture decisions. It was last updated in 2013.

The contrast is striking. About 69% of Indigenous territories in Brazil have secured formal tenure. Brazil’s National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) oversees quilombola land ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Deforestation in Brazil’s ecologically sensitive Cerrado biome increased by 43 per cent last year, according ...