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Guarani child labour on the sugar cane fields. © Survival International
Guarani child labour on the sugar cane fields. © Survival International

Shell drops biofuels plan after Brazilian Indian protest

June 2012

A biofuels company set up by Shell in Brazil has finally dropped controversial plans to source sugar cane from land stolen from an indigenous tribe, thanks to a dynamic campaign by the Indians and Survival International. The company, Raizen, was established in 2010 as a joint venture of Shell and the Brazilian ethanol giant Cosan to produce biofuel from sugar cane. But some of its sugar cane is grown on land that belongs to the Guarani tribe, one of the most persecuted and impoverished in South America. Their leaders have been repeatedly killed by gunmen on behalf of the sugar cane growers and cattle ranchers who have taken over almost all their land. Now Raizen has agreed to stop buying sugar cane from land declared as indigenous by the Ministry of Justice.

sources: Survival International News
also for updates: Survival International: Guarani

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