Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Mongabay
Feb 12, 2019, 1:26 pm238 pts
Brazilian Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas. Image courtesy of Agencia Brasil. “We are going to create a second revolution in Brazilian agribusiness,” declared Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas in a 2018 interview with Mongabay. “Mato Grosso state produced 62 million tons of grains on 9…

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