Organic agriculture is not a well-defined package of techniques or recipes. It is not a technological alternative to replace old inputs with new ones. It is the combination of a series of technologies applied to farming communities’ social, cultural, economic, environmental and political dynamics and realities of each farming community.
On the morning of 8 September 2022, the sun began to rise in Recife, Brazil, and illuminated the Government Palace of Pernambuco. Fifteen thousand kilometres away, the same sun was setting in the afternoon in Beijing, over the China Agricultural University. Both places were the scene of an important moment for Brazil's northeastern family farmers. Chinese and Brazilian authorities there signed the Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in agricultural mechanisation and energy.
Bioconstruction is a construction method with low environmental impact that promotes harmony between the natural and built environments, uses natural and/or less-processed materials, and considers local climate conditions, management of available resources, renewable energy and waste treatment
We are in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with the predominance of artificial intelligence where technology dominates and controls a big chunk of people’s daily life.
On the earth, there is a special ecological strip, where there are four distinct seasons. In this area, the weather is warm and humid during the summer, and cold and dry during the winter. These unique geographic and climatic conditions have created a rare type of soil - the black soil.
The article shows the regional imbalance in the use of agricultural machinery in Brazil, with less than 3% of mechanisation in the Northeast, while in the South the level of mechanisation in family farming is close to 50%.
On January 11, 2024, a cooperation agreement between Argentina and China took place. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding covers areas of cooperation such as genetic improvement, biological inputs, agricultural machinery and equipment, education and training. It aims to outline a concrete work agenda for the development and access to technology for small agricultural producers.
Latin America holds 60% of the world's reserves of lithium, an ore known as "white gold", widely used in mobile devices, batteries and electric cars, which are fundamental in the energy transition to a new green economy.
For the first time, a delegation of rural popular organisations participated with a delegation that travelled to China within the framework of the Sino-Brazilian High Level Commission for Concertation and Cooperation (Cosban).
Agroecological buildings are built with materials that can be produced locally, with quality, that are accessible both economically and locally and that have a low environmental impact compared to the modern/conventional buildings that capital, together with construction companies and developers, advocates.
The Bioinputs International School (BIS) is an initiative of the International Association for Popular Cooperation BAOBAB, whose objective is to create a space for technical consolidation, political-organisational training and proposals related to bioinputs, between countries and organisations of the Global South.
The Brazil-China Centre for Research, Development and Promotion of Technology and Mechanisation for Family Farming was inaugurated at the University of Brasilia (UnB) in an event attended by the Chinese Minister of Education, the authorities of UnB and leaders of the MST.
The colonisation of peoples is not limited to territory, but also to knowledge and all that this entails, because it is by crushing and denying popular traditions that capital is strengthened.
Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement uses small Chinese agricultural machinery to advance family farming mechanization in the Northeast, boosting agroecology scaling and agricultural reindustrialization.