agro-industry

Once seen as a wasteland, the Cerrado is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.

Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010

About 20 to 25 years ago, 70 to 80% of what we ate was produced locally in Bolivia," he said, "but then we embraced the agro-industrial model and now 70 to 80% of what we eat comes from the agro-industry, which makes us dependent on technologies and price controls from abroad.

Will Bolivia make the breakthrough on food security and the environment? 2011

The Forest Code curbs the environmental impacts of the country's growing agro-industry with safeguards that permanently preserved a percentage of rural properties under native vegetative cover, and protected sensitive ecological areas.

Carter Roberts: Code Red for Brazil's Forests Carter Roberts 2011

Once seen as a wasteland, the Cerrado is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.

Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Juan Forero 2010

The Forest Code curbs the environmental impacts of the country's growing agro-industry with safeguards that permanently preserved a percentage of rural properties under native vegetative cover, and protected sensitive ecological areas.

Carter Roberts: Code Red for Brazil's Forests Carter Roberts 2011

The Forest Code curbs the environmental impacts of the country's growing agro-industry with safeguards that permanently preserved a percentage of rural properties under native vegetative cover, and protected sensitive ecological areas.

Carter Roberts: Code Red for Brazil's Forests Carter Roberts 2011

Witnesses said the angry crowd had ties to powerful economic interests behind the local agro-industry and that police made little effort to interfere with the beating, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.

Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011

Witnesses said the angry crowd had ties to powerful economic interests behind the local agro-industry and that police made little effort to interfere with the beating, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.

Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011

The large private sector "agro-industry" investments particularly undermine women's participation and economic empowerment that the World Bank repeatedly promises, while overwhelmingly benefiting corporations.

World Bank must put its money behind the rhetoric on gender equality | Elizabeth Arend 2011

The Forest Code curbs the environmental impacts of the country's growing agro-industry with safeguards that permanently preserved a percentage of rural properties under native vegetative cover, and protected sensitive ecological areas.

Carter Roberts: Code Red for Brazil's Forests Carter Roberts 2011