At the age of 14, Celso Athayde’s task was to help his mother take other children from the Favela do Sapo, in Rio de Janeiro’s west zone, to the beach in exchange for payment. The informal business, called “Mãe Praieira”, gave parents the tranquility to go out to work without the fear of leaving their […]
President Jair Bolsonaro early January signed into law the legal framework for local energy generation, the so-called distributed generation. It generated urgency in the development of new projects in Brazil. The sector foresees a “gold rush” this year to guarantee the use of the distributors network, the so-called Tusd. The haste is explained because the […]
NOOA Science and Agricultural Technology will invest R$42 million to expand the capacity of its bio-inputs factory, located in Patos de Minas (state of Minas Gerais). Founded in 2016, the company has already invested R$100 million in research and currently delivers biological solutions for the cultivation of corn but intends to launch biological solutions for […]