Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Mongabay
Mar 26, 2018, 12:27 pm128 pts
Cargill soy silos are both a symbol and a source of the prosperity of the city of Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil’s latest agribusiness urban hotspot. Photo by Flávia Milhorance This is the fifth of six stories in a series by journalists Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance who travelled to the Cerrado in…

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