Articles by Fabiana Frayssinet
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Campaign against Glyphosate Steps Up in Latin America
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
“We can no longer accept the use of these poisons because they destroy biodiversity, aggravate climate change, destroy the soil’s fertility, and contaminate the water and even the air. And above all, they bring more illness, such as cancer. “
→ read full articleTransgenics Prosper Amidst Pragmatism and Collateral Damage
Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta published a map that dubbed a large area of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay the “United Republic of Soy”. In this “republic” more than 46 million hectares of transgenic soy are sprayed with 600 million litres of the herbicide glyphosate and are largely responsible for the deforestation of 500,000 hectares a year in the past decade.
→ read full articleBrazil: Ninja Citizen Journalists Don’t Claim to Be Impartial
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
7 Oct 2013
The citizen journalists of Midia Ninja who have covered the protests in Brazil are part of a new kind of reporting that is proud to be biased. The argument is that the big media outlets are not “impartial” either, but answer to their own interests or those of the economic powers they represent – although less transparently than the new citizen journalists.
→ read full article“The Oil Is Ours” – But Its Secrets Are the NSA’s
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 Sep 2013
The Brazilian government is the largest shareholder in Petrobras, a publicly traded company whose closely guarded secrets – such as the volume of reserves or the deep water exploration technology it has developed – may already be in the hands of the U.S. government and its allies.
→ read full articleEconomics and Population Policies Go Hand in Hand in Latin America
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
22 Jul 2013
Nearly 20 years after the landmark U.N. conference on population and development, the countries of Latin America have an opportunity to make headway with a new agenda on these issues, thanks to the favourable economic context that has made it possible to reduce social inequalities.
→ read full articleDebate on Asbestos Safety Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Sep 2012
Brazil’s Supreme Court is assessing the level of risk posed by asbestos to human health, while industry defends its use under controlled conditions, and associations of people with asbestos-related diseases argue that it should not be used under any circumstances, even with regulations.
→ read full articleBrazil, Emerging South-South Donor
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
12 Mar 2012
The Brazilian government is stepping up South-South aid. It now provides assistance to 65 countries, and its financial aid has grown threefold in the last seven years. “Another difference,” Santoro said, “is that Brazil’s foreign aid does not come with strings attached, and generally promotes projects that put a priority on developing human resources, by means of training of public employees, for example. It is the age-old concept of teaching people to fish rather than giving them fish,” he summed up.
→ read full articleHomegrown GM Bean Won’t Fight Hunger, Critics Say
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
10 Oct 2011
Critics complain that a genetically modified bean developed in Brazil, resistant to one of the country’s most damaging agricultural pests, was approved without enough debate or guarantees that the crop will not affect human health or the environment.
→ read full articleBrazil: The ‘Happiest’ Emerging Nation
Fabiana Frayssinet – TerraViva Europe,
11 Jul 2011
The reputation of Brazilians as cheerful, happy-go-lucky people is starting to be reflected in the cold reality of statistics. A study has put numbers to that state of well-being by quantifying the significant reduction in social inequality in the last few years, an area in which South America’s giant has outdone other emerging nations.
→ read full articleBrazil: Activists Call for Stronger Action against Violence in Amazon
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Jun 2011
Organisations of small farmers and human rights groups are disappointed with the measures announced by the Brazilian government to address the problem of violence in the Amazon jungle region, after four environmental activists were murdered in less than a week.
→ read full articleBrazil: From War on Drugs to Community Policing in Rio
Fabiana Frayssinet – Inter Press Service-IPS,
6 Jun 2011
Four decades after Washington declared its “war on drugs” and began to spread the doctrine south of the U.S. border, the government of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro decided to shift away from that approach towards a strategy focused on community policing. The new focus has already produced results in some of the city’s favelas or shanty towns, which were long off-limits to outsiders, including police.
→ read full articleWORLD SOCIAL FORUM: BRAZIL – ANOTHER POWER IS POSSIBLE
Fabiana Frayssinet – Terraviva Europe,
26 Jan 2010
The birthplace of the World Social Forum (WSF), conceived as an alternative to international meetings pursuing free-market economics, Brazil is on its way to becoming a major economic power, analysts say. The question is, what kind of model will it adopt to avoid the behaviour it has previously criticised? President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL: WOMEN ‘PEACE WORKERS’ IN THE FAVELAS
Fabiana Frayssinet - IPS-Inter Press Service,
6 Jul 2009
It’s another day marked by gunfire in the Morro da Providencia “favela”, one of the most dangerous slums in this Brazilian city, and the only area where people can move around in relative safety is in the lower part of the neighbourhood, towards the foot of the hill. Alessandra da Cunha is one of the […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL: NATURE PATHS INSTEAD OF WALL FOR RIO SLUM
Fabiana Frayssinet,
13 Jun 2009
Representatives of the Rocinha slum and the Rio de Janeiro government have agreed to replace a high wall, intended to prevent this densely populated hillside neighbourhood from spilling into the forest, with ecological paths, parks and low walls. This may also be an answer for other slums, known in Brazil as "favelas", where high walls […]
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