Tag: World Social Forum

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 19:37 UTC

  FAO underlines importance of agriculture to address world’s environmental challenge

  

  Agriculture is part of the solution to the world's environmental challenge and must play a key role at next June's Rio summit on sustainable development, the Brazilian head of the UN food agency said this week.

• Wednesday, January 25th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  President Rousseff to address protestors of anti-Davos Economic Forum

  

  Thousands of trade unionists, students and activists for indigenous and environmental causes gathered Tuesday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre to kick off debate in the anti-capitalist World Social Forum.