By Daniela Penha. Translation by Roberto Cataldo |
17/05/18
Even with the company’s name included in the “dirty list” of slave labor, a group of farms belonging to Succítrico Cutrale received one of the most important socio-environmental certifications in the world: Rainforest Alliance’s “good practices” seal. The...
By Thais Lazzeri in Ipojuca (Pernambuco) / Photos Fernando Martinho |
28/11/17
“My parents and grandparents died here. How can Suape call us trespassers?” asks Maria Madalena da Silva, aged 65, a resident of the Ilha Mercês quilombo (maroon) community where 90% of the population live off farming and fishing. She knows the answer. The...
By Thais Lazzeri / Photos Fernando Martinho |
19/10/17
Many years later, facing his younger brother, the sexagenarian Augusto Miranda Brasão was to remember that since the age of 12 he worked with his father cutting piassava to pay off debts to his bosses. This palm tree, whose coarse fiber is used to make brooms, has...
Text by: Ana Aranha and Antonio Carlos; translated by: Barnaby Whiteoak. Photos by: Antonio Carlos. Illustrations by: Samuel Bono |
12/07/17
A new testimony supports suspicions that civil police officers were working in association with private security guards on the Santa Lúcia farm, where the massacre of ten landless agricultural laborers took place in the state of Pará. They were murdered during a civil...
Text by: Thais Lazzeri; translated by: Barnaby Whiteoak. Illustration by: Samuel Bono |
23/06/17
Even before the end of the first half of 2017, three major tragedies in rural Brazil had left their mark in the country’s history. In the state of Mato Grosso in April, nine agricultural workers were killed with particular cruelty. In May, an attack on the Gamela...
