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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva speaks during the Power Our Planet concert on the sideline of the Climate Finance conference in Paris, June 22, 2023
BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has announced a 27 per cent rise in the “harvest plan” budget for sustainable agriculture, with 364 billion reals (£60bn) earmarked for the project.
His government intends to recover 30 million hectares of degraded farmland rather than rely on deforestation to increase agricultural output. It has expressed concern not just at Amazon deforestation but at the clearing of the Cerrado in Brazil’s mid-west, the world’s most species-rich savannah.
The Harvest Plan is part of a package of measures on agricultural sustainability including the restoration of the National Food Council, which subsidises small-scale farming and the delivery of its produce across the country.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
