China, Brazil, and the Pursuit for Pork
From Mato Grosso to Pará, how rural Brazil provides one of the food commodities China needs most.
From Mato Grosso to Pará, how rural Brazil provides one of the food commodities China needs most.
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The Dutch have long been the proud tamers of rivers, building vast networks of levees that kept the rising waters separated from farms and cities.
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Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached the highest rate in more than a decade. One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region is the growing of soybeans for livestock feed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to reporter and Pulitzer Center Grantee Melissa Chan about her reporting in Brazil on Chinese interests in the Amazon.