Brazil

Magazine articles on politics and society in Brazil.

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IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Rain Forest Protagonist Local people first saw a new reserve in Brazil's rainforest as a threat, but are now optimistic that the change will help them preserve their way of life while offering some economic stability.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Contraception Goes Organic Brazilian officials are hopeful that a commercial product such as condoms -- sold with their all-natural cachet -- will give the standing Amazonian rainforest additional value and boost incomes for the families that make their living from it.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Chico Mendes: Amazon Journey In tiny forest communities in the far western corner of the Brazilian Amazon, conversations often begin and end with the rubber tapper who rallied local communities and world opinion to the cause of protecting tropical forests and their inhabitants.
IDB America December 2005 Charo Quesada	A Giant That Needs to Keep Growing A Brazilian academic suggests ways to accelerate the development of Latin America's largest economy.
IDB America September 2005 Roger Hamilton	Scientists Roll up Their Sleeves on Brazil's Coral Coast Marine ecologists want to reverse the destruction of coral reefs. But they know that research alone cannot conserve a precious resource without the participation of the local people.
BusinessWeek September 12, 2005 Jonathan Wheatley	Will Scandal Spare Lula But Kill Reform? The corruption scandal engulfing the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has more plot twists than a soap opera.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	On the Trail of the Peripatetic Pathogen Disease microbes make common cause between farmers and conservationists in far western Sao Paulo State, Brazil.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies.
IDB America June 2005	Environment Fund Reaches Across Brazil Brazil's National Environmental Fund (FNMA, after its initials in Portuguese) has pushed for more than 2,000 projects throughout the country. Recently, NGOs and municipalities are helping to carry out national environmental policy there.
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