Brazil's Landless Workers Rise Up.

MOVIMENTO dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra (Brazil) ; VIA Campesina (Organization) ; SYNGENTA AG 007994572

The article offers information on the increasing number of landless workers in Brazil. Topics include the lawsuit faced by Swiss transnational agribusiness Syngenta following allegation that the firm attacks landless activists from the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) and Via Campesina in southern Brazil, the total number of members of the MST which is 1.5 million, and factors that contributes to growing number of landless laborers such as climate change. Also mentioned are the population in Brazil from 1945-1985, the agriculture of the country, and the country's economic condition.