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Tocantins (Brazil)

Type: City

Name: Tocantins (Brazil)

Country: Brazil

Latitude: -21.17

Longitude: -43.040001

population: 12,876

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

Agriculture: Bumper crops fall victim to inadequate infrastructure

Source – Financial Times (UK)By Amy Stillman; Report – Brazil & the US 2013Date – 16 May 2013Website – www.ft.comThere is a rising spectre to the south of the US’s grain belt. In the past two years Brazil has reaped the benefits of agricultural innovations ... [Published Truth About Trade - May 17 2013]

Entities: Brazil, Corn, Agriculture, EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corpora..., Infrastructure

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Brazil Frees Nearly 3,000 Slaves

Brazilian authorities rescued almost 3,000 people from conditions of slavery in 2012, as the country continues to strengthen its efforts to tackle the entrenched practice.The freeing of 2,849 people, announced by the Labor Ministry on its website , represents ... [Published InSight Crime - May 14 2013]

Entities: Brazil, Sugarcane, Compulsory Labour, Slavery, Pig Iron

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Abengoa secures electricity transmission contracts worth €1bn in Brazil

Spanish multinational corporation Abengoa has secured a contract worth about €1bn from the Brazilian National Electricity Agency (ANEEL) to construct new electricity transmission projects in the country.The firm will carry out engineering, design, construction, ... [Published Power Technology - May 14 2013]

Entities: Abengoa SA, Electricity Transmission, Brazil, Concession

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 3 reports

Abengoa wins three electricity transmission concessions for Brazilian regulator

Sponsored byThe Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency, Agencia Nacional de Energia Eletrica (ANEEL) chose Abengoa to carry out a new electricity transmission project in the country.The contract, which is worth about $1.3 billion, will enable part of ... [Published Elp.com - May 13 2013]

Entities: Abengoa SA, Electricity Transmission, Concession

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Drought deepens Brazil's north-south faming divide

Farm operators and officials flagged a north-south divide in Brazil's farm fortunes which is seeing states in the once-fashionable Mapitoba region miss out on the strong yields being enjoyed by other area.Conab, the Brazilian crop bureau, in a report ... [Published Agrimoney.com - May 09 2013]

Entities: Drought, Soybean, Brazil, SLC Agrícola SA

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Wind energy: a Goldmine for EGP in Brazil

Enel Green Power is building three wind farms in the Brazilian state of Bahia, with the first turbines being turned on within the next few months. This is the latest step in renewable energy development in Brazil. Enel Green Power is heavily investing ... [Published Regulación Eólica con Vehículos Eléctricos - May 03 2013]

Entities: Brazil, Enel Green Power SpA, Wind Power

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Brazil’s USD 526 billion strat ...

The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade has brought to Dubai a delegation of 85 business leaders headed by Mauricio Borges, President of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), on a mission to attract ... [Published World Connector Net - May 01 2013]

Entities: Brazil, Khaled Al Angari, Concession

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

WISeKey Receives Strategic Investment From GJC, Grupo Jaime Camara, Leading Brazilian Media Group and PR Newswire

/PRNewswire/ --WISeKey and GJC, Grupo Jaime Camara, two World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies have entered into a Joint Venture Agreement, aiming at the creation of a new company with the name WISeKey Liber expanding WISeKey's global footprint ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: WISeKey, Jaime Camara, Tocantins (Brazil), Cloud Computing

First reported Apr 19 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 1 reports

Police Break Up Bolivia-Brazil Drug Trafficking Ring

Brazil's Federal PoliceBrazilian police have broken up a drug trafficking ring that moved cocaine from Bolivia to Brazil, disrupting supply in one of the region's main trafficking routes, which is often controlled by Brazilian prison gangs.Close to 200 ... [Published InSight Crime - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Drug Trafficking, Cocaine, Bolivia, Police

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Tocantins state in Brazil to boost beach tourism to attract global tourists

Tocantins, one of the states of Brazil, wants to enhance tourism in its more than 30 river beaches. The goal is to attract more tourists by the implementation of the project ‘Tocantins Open Arms’,...http://www.travelandtourworld.com ... [Published Travel News - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Tocantins (Brazil), Brazil

First reported Apr 04 2013 - Updated Apr 04 2013 - 2 reports

Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon

Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years. ... [Published Greenpeace news - Apr 04 2013]

Entities: Deforestation, Khaled Al Angari, Dilma Roussef, Brazil, Tocantins (Brazil)

First reported Mar 22 2013 - Updated Mar 22 2013 - 1 reports

Leading Brazilian Water Utility Applies Water Stewardship Standard

invites companies and utilities to apply the Beta Standard and provide feedback The (AWS) announces the release of the Beta AWS Standard, the world’s first international water stewardship standard, for application and public comment. The Standard is already ... [Published PRWeb - Mar 22 2013]

Entities: Tocantins (Brazil), Watershed, Palmas (Tocantins, Brazil), Brazil

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SLC Agricola said that it was cutting its forecast for soybean yields, for a second time, thanks to "droughts in December and February that affected the production potential of certain plots" , particularly in western Bahia and Piauí

Drought deepens Brazil's north-south faming divide [Published Agrimoney.com - May 09 2013]

...But according to ParaÃba Council of Physicians, just one Cuban was approved to be a doctor in the state. Montinho later gave up on the idea. "I just wanted to improve the services of my state" said Montinho

Why The Unqualified Cuban Doctors Will Kill The Ghanaian People 1 Francis Tawiah [Published Modern Ghana - May 04 2013]

...sentations about the Brazilian Government’s foreign investment program and to showcase their projects during AIM, which is organized under the theme "A Future International Economic Landscape in the Making, Implications on FDI and the Economic Growth Prospects in Emerging & Frontier Markets" . The key sectors that are expected to offer a wide range of business and investment opportunities to Arab investors include transportation concessions...

Brazil’s USD 526 billion strategic investment program opens lucrative opportunities for Arab inve ... [Published Dubib.com - May 01 2013]

...of Alcoa Latin America and the Caribbean, the 11th edition of the Alcoa Innovation in Aluminum Prize is a source of pride for the company: "Innovation is one of Alcoa's values, and that is why it is so important for the company to promote a competition that stimulates the creativity of professionals and students to develop practical and sustainable solutions for everyday society" he says

Last weeks to register for the 11th Alcoa Innovation in Aluminum Prize more [Published Noodls - Apr 24 2013]

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Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon [Published Greenpeace news - Apr 04 2013] Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years. ...
Deforestation takes flight again in the Amazon [Published The Greenpeace weblog - Apr 04 2013] Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five years. ...
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Abengoa wins three new electricity transmission... [Published PR Newswire - May 13 2013]