Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Mongabay
Feb 8, 2021, 2:05 am241 pts
In November 2017, about a thousand small farmers, cowboys and their families got on buses and headed to the Rio Claro farm, owned by Lavoura e Pecuária Igarashi, one of many companies using large-scale irrigation in Brazil’s Bahia state. They blamed the farm for the degradation of the Arrojado River, which…

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