... line which extends from Belem to Braganca there were, in addition to groups of small farmers raising food crops for the supply of Belem, Japanese colonists. A Japanese land company owns more than 2,500,000 acres in Para, although the company has been able to settle no more than 2,000 Japanese at the most. ... and event of great importance took place in the North of Brazil. The Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil purchased a tract of land, including some 2,500,000 acres, along the right bank of the Rio Tapajoz about 135 miles upstream from the Amazon . The area was known as Fordlandia. At ...

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... big business and the governments that stand behind them in their efforts. The Brazilian government has decided to allow big business to cut millions of acres of trees in the Amazon River basin (Ghitis). Although perhaps only 15 to 20 % has been removed so far, the rate of cutting ... has been accelerating so that now more than twenty thousand square kilometers are cleared each year (Place XVI). In Brazil alone 5.4 million acres are lost every year. Ecuador a country of 270,000 square kilometers, formerly had 132,000 square kilometers of Amazonian rainforest and now with a deforestation ...

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... of the Amazon only after large areas of forest is torn down for human "needs" The Brazilian government is aiming for 25 percent of dense forests to come under sustainable forest management, a total of nearly 12 million acres (4 million hectares) of an state called Acre The state will use ... will make Acre's products more appealing to consumers in national and international markets, providing an edge over neighbouring states. And certification is beneficial for Acre's native tribes people. The Antimari Forest supports many communities of indigenous people whose livelihood depends on the ...

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... own 81% of the countries farmland and 70% of the world=s households are landless= (Anderson 1990).. Landless peasants are forced to search for land in the untouched forests. The building of new commercial logging roads into the interior rainforests assists the farmers in their search. Often, ... by commercial forestry. The global markets= demand for wood and wood products fuels the scale of logging activities. As consumption of wood, paper and other forest products increases so does the rate of deforestation. Eleven million acres a year are cut for commercial paper. AMcDonald=s J needs ...

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... economic interest of the country concerned. When environmentalists show their concern over the loss of the rainforest, Brazilians get annoyed. They believe the arguments for preserving the forests are a "rich man's luxury." They are mainly concerned with the country's need to improve its people's living standards ... Howard Facklam states, "It was estimated at one point in the 1980s that such forest lands were being cleared at the rate of 50 acres a minute; another estimate put the rate at more than 200,000 sq km (more than 78,000 sq mi) a year. In ... that can have many striking effec...

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... economic interest of the country concerned. When environmentalists show their concern over the loss of the rainforest, Brazilians get annoyed. They believe the arguments for preserving the forests are a "rich man's luxury." They are mainly concerned with the country's need to improve its people's living standards ... Howard Facklam states, "It was estimated at one point in the 1980s that such forest lands were being cleared at the rate of 50 acres a minute; another estimate put the rate at more than 200,000 sq km (more than 78,000 sq mi) a year. In ... that can have many striking effec...

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