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A green economy without poverty is a recent article by the Brazilian foreign minister, Ambassador Antonio Patriota, about the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). It was published in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo on 20 April 2012. Read the article

The 3rd Brazil-UK Oil & Gas Meeting: Co-Operation in Human Resources & Skills Development will be held at Aberdeen City Hall on 10 May. The seminar is sponsored by the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil and BG Group, with support of Petrobras S.A. and the Brazilian National Organization for the Oil & Gas Industry. Read more

World Cup venues will be ready, Brazil tells Fifa - BBC News - 9/5
Brazilian congress adopts controversial land use law - The Guardian - 27/4
Latin America's biggest landfill nears its close in Rio - BBC News - 25/4
Why Shakespeare is … Brazilian - The Guardian - 24/4
We can save the Awá tribe - The Observer - 22/4

Thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups will come together in Rio de Janeiro from 13 to 22 June for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), an event that should help define the sustainable development agenda for the coming decades. Visit the Rio+20 website | Read about the Rio+20 Sustainable Development Dialogues

President Rousseff said this week that in sustaining economic growth while reducing inequality, Brazil has moved beyond the old adage that "the cake needs to get bigger before it can be cut into more equal slices".
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During the recent visit to Brazil by the UK's Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, the two countries discussed further ways of sharing expertise so as to boost agriculture in developing countries.
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The Financial Times Sustainable Agriculture Summit, organized in partnership with the Embassy of Brazil, took place on 29 March in London. The event looked at the initiatives, technologies and policies that are helping to address critical challenges with regard to sustainable agriculture, focusing particularly on the Brazilian model. The distinguished line-up of speakers included Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture, Mendes Ribeiro Filho. Read more

Launched last year by Brazil's Ministry of Education and Ministry of Science and Technology, the Science without Borders programme will offer grants to more than 100 thousand Brazilian students so that they can study science-related subjects at universities around the world, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. This month 5,800 scholarships are being made available for university places in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Holland, Portugal, South Korea and Spain. From 26 April there will be 20 doctorate scholarships for study in the UK at the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham. Read more

In an article for Diplomat magazine, Ambassador Jaguaribe looks at the major economic impact the 2016 Olympic Games will have on his home city of Rio de Janeiro, and their likely legacy in terms of infrastructure. The article mentions the huge potential for foreign investment surrounding the Games and notes that British companies have been quick to respond to these opportunities. Read more

Now available for Kindle, Josh Lacey's book tells the little-known story of Charles Miller, the Englishman widely credited with having introduced football to Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century. The backdrop to Miller's story is the evolving role of the British community in Brazil, including engineers and entrepreneurs who made a notable contribution to country's developing economy.
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Brazil's National Library Foundation has announced a long-term project aimed at translating a significantly greater amount of Brazilian literature into foreign languages. Over the next nine years, foreign publishers eligible to translate the work of Brazilian authors will be invited to apply for grants from a fund totalling more than US$7m. Read more