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Report

By Mario Osava

New Leaders Emerge from Environmental Movement

Brazil's recently-named Environment minister symbolizes a new type of leadership in Latin America, an approach arising from activism that seeks profound changes. For some ecologists, it has been a matter of life or death.

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With the Environment at Heart

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Washington Novaes

Washington Novaes

By Mario Osava

Johannesburg Summit: Journalism's Bad Example

Journalists are not covering the crisis of the world's model of civilization and seem to be more concerned with spectacle, warns Washington Novaes. "The world is in a big mess," the renowned Brazilian reporter said in a conversation with Tierramérica.

Fuente: Ch.Errath/FAO.org

Photo source: Ch.Errath/FAO.org

Rice

Grains of rice have been feeding human beings since the dawn of civilization. Today this cereal originating in the wetland regions of Asia is the basic food of more than half the world's population.

Growing oregano in the Chilean desert... Informal recyclable waste collectors demand wages in Brazil... A report asserts that the NAFTA nations pollute very little.

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