Women fruit-pickers in Brazil say they are forced to endure physical, psychological and sexual violence at the hands of farmers. The Babassu Coconut Breakers, whose numbers reach over 350,000, make a ...
PITTSBURGH, May 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there needed to be a safer way to break open a coconut shell when cooking," said an inventor from Potomac, Md., "so I invented the patent-pending ...
In Brazil, agricultural expansion is threatening forests of babassu, a palm tree that provides a sustainable livelihood for hundreds of thousands of "coconut breakers." They say the Brazilian ...
Agricultural expansion in Brazil is threatening forests of babassu, a palm tree that provides sustainable livelihood to nearly half a million "coconut breakers." A mapping initiative could help ...