Q&A: Clarinha Glock interviews CLARA BRANDĂO, Brazilian nutrition activist* GAROPABA, Brazil, Aug 13 (Tierramérica) - In 1975, Brazilian nutritionist and paediatrician Clara Brandăo introduced "multimixture" in the diet of 13 preschools in ...
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jul 18 (IPS/IFEJ) - The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, a pioneer in participatory budgets and environmental policies, and habitual host of the enormous World Social Forum, has returned to ...
TECHNOLOGY-BRAZIL: PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Apr 25 (IPS/IFEJ) - Using pieces from all sorts of useless equipment, students at the Computer Recovery Centre in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre have put 1,700 computers into operation ...
BRAZIL: GAROPABA, Brazil, Mar 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - In the city of Garopaba, a tourist destination on Brazil's southern coast, leftover food from restaurants will be turned into fertiliser to be used by farmers, who in turn will grow ...
BRAZIL: PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Sep 15 (Tierramérica) - The battle against the wood pulp ndustry has intensified in the Brazilian courts, especially in those states where eucalyptus plantations have expanded the most: Bahia and Espírito ...
BRAZIL: BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, Aug 12 (IPS) - "Negro F" tells how the Manos Grafite (roughly, "Graphite Hands") group started. In 1996, he and his friend Alex were walking along a street in the outskirts of the capital of the southeastern ...
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