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Centro Ecológico is an NGO that since 1985 has been working to enable sustainable advances in agricultural production, through the adoption of alternative technologies guided by the philosophy of environmental preservation and social justice.
On September 1st, Judge Patrícia Antunes Laydner, from the Regional Environmental Court of the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul, prohibited the use of herbicides based on dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in the Campanha region of Rio Grande do Sul
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Decisão inédita que proíbe uso de herbicida hormonal no RS reabre debate sobre uso ‘seguro’ de agrotóxicos
No último dia 1º de setembro, a juíza Patrícia Antunes Laydner, da Vara Regional do Meio Ambiente do Tribunal de
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September 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On September 1st, Judge Patrícia Antunes Laydner, from the Regional Environmental Court of the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul, prohibited the use of herbicides based on dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) in the Campanha region of Rio Grande do Sul
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Founded in 2005 by 29 organic farmers, the cooperative has grown to include 200 members across the regions where the Centro Ecológico operates. In the first half of 2025, it supplied 200 tons of bananas, 30 tons of vegetables, and 10,000 liters of organic grape juice to the institutional market .
August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Founded in 2005 by 29 organic farmers, the cooperative has grown to include 200 members across the regions where the Centro Ecológico operates. In the first half of 2025, it supplied 200 tons of bananas, 30 tons of vegetables, and 10,000 liters of organic grape juice to the institutional market .
Since 1985, Centro Ecológico has been working to promote sustainable advances in agricultural production by adopting technologies guided by the principles of environmental preservation and social justice
August 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Since 1985, Centro Ecológico has been working to promote sustainable advances in agricultural production by adopting technologies guided by the principles of environmental preservation and social justice
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🚨 #FoodSystems = 1/3 of global emissions. They also contribute to:
🌲 90% of #deforestation
🦋 60% of #BiodiversityLoss
💧 70% of freshwater use
It’s time to shift #ClimateFinance to #agroecology + #RegenerativeFarming models.
Learn more in our research: bit.ly/3X5eUsY
🌲 90% of #deforestation
🦋 60% of #BiodiversityLoss
💧 70% of freshwater use
It’s time to shift #ClimateFinance to #agroecology + #RegenerativeFarming models.
Learn more in our research: bit.ly/3X5eUsY
Cultivating Change: A Collaborative Philanthropic Initiative to Accelerate and Scale Agroecology and Regenerative Approaches
Food systems account for at least 15% of global fossil fuel use each year. 🚨
To tackle the climate, biodiversity, and health crises, we need to transition away from industrial food systems to #agroe...
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July 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 #FoodSystems = 1/3 of global emissions. They also contribute to:
🌲 90% of #deforestation
🦋 60% of #BiodiversityLoss
💧 70% of freshwater use
It’s time to shift #ClimateFinance to #agroecology + #RegenerativeFarming models.
Learn more in our research: bit.ly/3X5eUsY
🌲 90% of #deforestation
🦋 60% of #BiodiversityLoss
💧 70% of freshwater use
It’s time to shift #ClimateFinance to #agroecology + #RegenerativeFarming models.
Learn more in our research: bit.ly/3X5eUsY
Responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions, the power of the industrial food system is concentrated in ten global corporations. This gives these companies control over prices and also over political decisions that favor their interests. grain.org/es/article/7...
Los diez gigantes de los agronegocios: la concentración corporativa en la alimentación y en la agricultura
Un nuevo informe elaborado por el Grupo ETC y GRAIN revela cómo la extrema concentración corporativa en los agronegocios le permite a unas pocas compañías gigantescas manipular los precios, controlar ...
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July 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Responsible for a third of greenhouse gas emissions, the power of the industrial food system is concentrated in ten global corporations. This gives these companies control over prices and also over political decisions that favor their interests. grain.org/es/article/7...
The estimated burden of ultra-processed foods on cardiovascular disease outcomes in Brazil: A modeling study
#ultraprocessedfoods #UPF
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#ultraprocessedfoods #UPF
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July 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The estimated burden of ultra-processed foods on cardiovascular disease outcomes in Brazil: A modeling study
#ultraprocessedfoods #UPF
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#ultraprocessedfoods #UPF
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Banned in the EU but authorized in the USA and Brazil, titanium dioxide is used in ultra-processed foods. Its most recent formulation as nanoparticles can enter the body through multiple pathways and accumulate in various organs with carcinogenic potential. www.ihu.unisinos.br/653506-venen...
Veneno nos alimentos
Fonte: Pixabay
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June 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Banned in the EU but authorized in the USA and Brazil, titanium dioxide is used in ultra-processed foods. Its most recent formulation as nanoparticles can enter the body through multiple pathways and accumulate in various organs with carcinogenic potential. www.ihu.unisinos.br/653506-venen...
Approved in the Senate in May, Bill 2,159 of 2021, also known as the Devastation Bill, has as its primary characteristic self-licensing for various activities, primarily agricultural ones, including eucalyptus monocultures, among others.
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Mais ameaçado do país, bioma Pampa corre risco com o avanço do ‘PL da Devastação’
Foto: Pixabay
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June 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Approved in the Senate in May, Bill 2,159 of 2021, also known as the Devastation Bill, has as its primary characteristic self-licensing for various activities, primarily agricultural ones, including eucalyptus monocultures, among others.
www.ihu.unisinos.br/653524-mais-...
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Biodiversity Fair highlights rural knowledge in favor of the environment - groups, associations, and collectives focused on agroecology, rural tourism, medicinal plants, natural products, and handicrafts, as well as environmental education projects centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1484
June 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Biodiversity Fair highlights rural knowledge in favor of the environment - groups, associations, and collectives focused on agroecology, rural tourism, medicinal plants, natural products, and handicrafts, as well as environmental education projects centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1484
Panc Group organized a gathering to promote the consumption of non-conventional edible plants. Identifying and incorporating nutritious vegetables into one's diet that grow easily in backyards, gardens, and vegetable patches remains a challenge for most people centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1483
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Panc Group organized a gathering to promote the consumption of non-conventional edible plants. Identifying and incorporating nutritious vegetables into one's diet that grow easily in backyards, gardens, and vegetable patches remains a challenge for most people centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1483
Although many companies write their own rules and oversee themselves, Brazil’s Biosafety Law has been in place for the past 20 years to ensure the safe use of GMOs. Now, there’s a push to remove the “T” symbol from food labels. Please sign and share the petition idec.org.br/rotulagem-tr...
A rotulagem de transgênicos está ameaçada!
A rotulagem de transgênicos está ameaçada! Diga NÃO a esse ataque ao seu direito à informação.
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June 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Although many companies write their own rules and oversee themselves, Brazil’s Biosafety Law has been in place for the past 20 years to ensure the safe use of GMOs. Now, there’s a push to remove the “T” symbol from food labels. Please sign and share the petition idec.org.br/rotulagem-tr...
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Reuse is one of the easiest ways to cut plastic waste. Bring your own containers, bags, and bottles whenever you’re shopping, grabbing takeout, or on the go.
What’s your favorite everyday item to reuse? ♻️
What’s your favorite everyday item to reuse? ♻️
May 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reuse is one of the easiest ways to cut plastic waste. Bring your own containers, bags, and bottles whenever you’re shopping, grabbing takeout, or on the go.
What’s your favorite everyday item to reuse? ♻️
What’s your favorite everyday item to reuse? ♻️
During a symbolic planting organized by Onda Verde, an NGO in partnership with the Centro Ecológico, a square next to the Organic Street Market in Torres, Brazil, received three saplings of native Atlantic Forest trees. The Atlantic Forest Day is on May 27 centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1482
June 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
During a symbolic planting organized by Onda Verde, an NGO in partnership with the Centro Ecológico, a square next to the Organic Street Market in Torres, Brazil, received three saplings of native Atlantic Forest trees. The Atlantic Forest Day is on May 27 centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1482
On May 21, the Federal Senate approved a Bill that dismantles the rules for environmental licensing. It is the biggest attack on environmental legislation in the last four decades. www.ihu.unisinos.br/652432-senad...
Senado aprova desmonte do licenciamento ambiental no país
Foto: Andressa Anholete/Agência Brasil
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May 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On May 21, the Federal Senate approved a Bill that dismantles the rules for environmental licensing. It is the biggest attack on environmental legislation in the last four decades. www.ihu.unisinos.br/652432-senad...
A diverse array of food is being produced in a small urban space in Três Cachoeiras, located on the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul. This surprising biodiversity captured the attention of students from a rural school #agrobiodiversity #agroecology centroecologico.org.br/noticias/147
May 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A diverse array of food is being produced in a small urban space in Três Cachoeiras, located on the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul. This surprising biodiversity captured the attention of students from a rural school #agrobiodiversity #agroecology centroecologico.org.br/noticias/147
Ipê was severely impacted by the above-average rainfall that stopped over Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024. A year later, between April 25 and 27, the 2nd edition of the Festa da Boa Colheita in the Vila Segredo District, shows the result of the farmers' work centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1477
April 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ipê was severely impacted by the above-average rainfall that stopped over Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024. A year later, between April 25 and 27, the 2nd edition of the Festa da Boa Colheita in the Vila Segredo District, shows the result of the farmers' work centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1477
After 70 years, researchers found DDT residues in trout in some lakes, often at levels 10 times the recommended safety limit for wildlife.
From 1952 to 1968, insecticide was used in New Brunswick, Canada, in forested areas. #DDT #pesticides
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From 1952 to 1968, insecticide was used in New Brunswick, Canada, in forested areas. #DDT #pesticides
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Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout decades after use, research finds
Potential danger to humans and wildlife from harmful pesticide discovered in fish at 10 times safety limit
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April 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
After 70 years, researchers found DDT residues in trout in some lakes, often at levels 10 times the recommended safety limit for wildlife.
From 1952 to 1968, insecticide was used in New Brunswick, Canada, in forested areas. #DDT #pesticides
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
From 1952 to 1968, insecticide was used in New Brunswick, Canada, in forested areas. #DDT #pesticides
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Since April 15, native bees from the Atlantic Forest have been part of the environment of three elementary schools on the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. #pollinators #climateadaptation
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1475
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1475
April 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Since April 15, native bees from the Atlantic Forest have been part of the environment of three elementary schools on the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. #pollinators #climateadaptation
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1475
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1475
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📢 Free online Agroforestry Training coming soon! 🌳
📅 Dates: April 15th-16th-17th, 2025
📍 Location: Online
📝 Programme & Registration: projectundertrees.wordpress.com/coming-event...
#agroecology #agroforestry
📅 Dates: April 15th-16th-17th, 2025
📍 Location: Online
📝 Programme & Registration: projectundertrees.wordpress.com/coming-event...
#agroecology #agroforestry
April 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢 Free online Agroforestry Training coming soon! 🌳
📅 Dates: April 15th-16th-17th, 2025
📍 Location: Online
📝 Programme & Registration: projectundertrees.wordpress.com/coming-event...
#agroecology #agroforestry
📅 Dates: April 15th-16th-17th, 2025
📍 Location: Online
📝 Programme & Registration: projectundertrees.wordpress.com/coming-event...
#agroecology #agroforestry
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🤔The perennial question
If organic & agroecological farming are the answer, why isn’t change happening faster?
2 studies attempt to find out:
What outside factors are hindering change
Where farmer's motivations lie
Join us
Wed 23 April, 10-11.30am CET
soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If organic & agroecological farming are the answer, why isn’t change happening faster?
2 studies attempt to find out:
What outside factors are hindering change
Where farmer's motivations lie
Join us
Wed 23 April, 10-11.30am CET
soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
🤔The perennial question
If organic & agroecological farming are the answer, why isn’t change happening faster?
2 studies attempt to find out:
What outside factors are hindering change
Where farmer's motivations lie
Join us
Wed 23 April, 10-11.30am CET
soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
If organic & agroecological farming are the answer, why isn’t change happening faster?
2 studies attempt to find out:
What outside factors are hindering change
Where farmer's motivations lie
Join us
Wed 23 April, 10-11.30am CET
soilassociation-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With Centro Ecológico technical support, farmers in the North Coast and Highlands of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, use green manure to protect their soil from drought and heat waves. Through an Agroecology Fund project approved after the 2024 floods
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1474
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1474
April 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
With Centro Ecológico technical support, farmers in the North Coast and Highlands of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, use green manure to protect their soil from drought and heat waves. Through an Agroecology Fund project approved after the 2024 floods
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1474
centroecologico.org.br/noticias/1474
“The global human impact on biodiversity” is a study that analyses a large dataset to assess the impacts of human pressures on biodiversity. This story from @theguardian.com has the link to the study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“The global human impact on biodiversity” is a study that analyses a large dataset to assess the impacts of human pressures on biodiversity. This story from @theguardian.com has the link to the study www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Food sovereignty and how it is transformed into rights, as part of the identity of territories, is the focus of the Journal Biodiversity, Sustenance, and Cultures 123 in the Spanish and Portuguese versions. biodiversidadla.org and centroecologico.org.br/boletins
Biodiversidad en América Latina
Acción por la Biodiversidad es una ONG que tiene por objeto promover la protección de la biodiversidad natural y agrícola en todas sus formas en Argentina y en latinoamérica a través de la realización...
biodiversidadla.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Food sovereignty and how it is transformed into rights, as part of the identity of territories, is the focus of the Journal Biodiversity, Sustenance, and Cultures 123 in the Spanish and Portuguese versions. biodiversidadla.org and centroecologico.org.br/boletins
Thanks to the recent reactivation of the Ipê School Feeding Council (CAE), access to healthy food, preferably organic ingredients produced in the region, should continue in the municipality's public network radiosolaris.com.br/conselho-de-...
Conselho de Alimentação Escolar é retomado em Ipê | Rádio Solaris
A retomada deste Conselho vai ampliar oferta de orgânicos nas cantinas Após a recente reativação do Conselho da Alimentação Escolar de Ipê (CAE), o acesso à ...
radiosolaris.com.br
March 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thanks to the recent reactivation of the Ipê School Feeding Council (CAE), access to healthy food, preferably organic ingredients produced in the region, should continue in the municipality's public network radiosolaris.com.br/conselho-de-...