News stories by Fabiola Ortiz, page 4

KIGALI, Apr 06 (IPS) - Joane Nkuliye considers herself an activist. She is part of a select group of farmers producing biofortified crops on a commercial scale in Rwanda. 

SEROPÉDICA, Brazil, Mar 29 (IPS) - Brazilian farmer Isabel Michi's day starts before dawn, when she goes out to the organic garden on her small five-hectare farm that she runs with help from her husband and occasionally their children.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 28 (IPS) - Nearly every day, violence breaks out in a Brazilian prison. In January the focus has been on the northeastern state of Maranhão, where orders issued from behind bars wreaked havoc in the streets of its capital city, illustrating the scope of national prison anarchy.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (IPS) - Residents of the small community of Rio dos Macacos, made up of descendants of slaves in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, reported to United Nations experts that they were attacked by military personnel from the Aratu naval base, which occupies part of their land.

ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil, Dic 18 (IPS) - Brazil has continued to develop nuclear energy despite the costs involved and the fact that the industry will never account for more than a small portion of the country's energy production.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dic 12 (IPS) - It took them three days to make the 2,000-km journey by bus from their Amazon jungle villages.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 28 (IPS) - The number of femicides – gender-related murders – in Brazil has reached civil war-like proportions. In just 10 years 40,000 women were killed in this country merely for being women, say activists leading the fight against gender violence.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 11 (IPS) - In the last five years, Brazil has joined the ranks of the world's big polluters, whose main source of greenhouse gases is the burning of fossil fuels.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 28 (IPS) - Amidst rumours that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that each of the last three decades has been warmer than any preceding decade since 1850.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 25 (IPS) - The TransBrasil bus rapid transit system, which will connect poor suburbs with the centre of Rio de Janeiro, will be the high-speed bus corridor that serves the largest number of commuters in the world.