In the past two decades, Brazil’s rural areas have seen a decline in population at almost twice the rate of the global average. The World Bank reports a 33.8% reduction in the rural population of Brazil from 2000 to 2022, outpacing the global figure of 19.2%. Gerson Teixeira of the Brazilian Association for Agrarian Reform […]
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