English : Arquivos – O Joio e O Trigo

Juul considered launching a “low-cost vape” in Brazil and selling it in neighborhood bars and markets

23.07.25 | Por Pedro Nakamura

The American manufacturer received tips on entering the Brazilian market from executives in the Brazilian tobacco industry and estimated electronic cigarettes would be released in the country by 2024, according to internal company documents

Agronegócio, English

Hundreds of Brazil’s biggest pension funds could pour up to US$22.89 billion into agribusiness investments

21.07.25 | Por Bruna Bronoski

Despite a track record of financing linked to land grabbing and deforestation, agricultural investment funds, or Fiagros, have been cleared by Brazil’s Monetary Council to receive up to 10% of pension fund assets

English, Indústria da fumaça

When the tobacco industry is divided

17.05.23 | Por Raquel Torres

On discussing tax on cigarettes, BAT Brasil and Philip Morris move in opposite directions. Why?

English, Indústria da fumaça

Cheaper cigarettes: how this idea got so far (and why it didn’t work out)

17.05.23 | Por Raquel Torres , with collaboration from Gui Mendes

At the beginning of the Bolsonaro administration, an old demand from the manufacturer of the Lucky Strike and Kent cigarette brands formed part of the agenda in Sergio Moro’s Ministry of Justice. Joio had access to documents that help to understand this story

English, Indústria da fumaça

The many faces of the tobacco industry lobby

15.03.23 | Por Maurício Brum Sílvia Lisboa

How cigarette manufacturers have multiplied entities and established themselves inside the Brazilian government in order to hinder the execution of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, of which Brazil is a signatory.

English, Indústria da fumaça

Amprotabaco: the mayor network in defense of the industry

13.03.23 | Por Sílvia Lisboa

How an entity created ten years ago in the South of Brazil became a network of politicians that govern with their backs turned to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and any law that dares to get in the way of a product which kills 160 thousand people per year in the country The inauguration […]

English, Indústria da fumaça

Bolsonaro deputy leader admits to being “in cahoots” with Minister Onyx to extinguish anti-tobacco collegiate

24.02.22 | Por Maíra Mathias

Video reveals plot between congressman Marcelo Moraes (PTB-RS) and the minister to breach international treaty

Agronegócio, English

Hemmed in by agribusiness, Xavante territory is hit by high Covid-related mortality rates

04.11.21 | By Fábio Zuker from InfoAmazonia and Tatiana Merlino from O Joio e O Trigo

With pressure on their native land and traditional foods, agrochemicals polluting their rivers, and a high rate of chronic disease have left the Xavante people of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna vulnerable to the pandemic

Cultura alimentar, English

How the ultraprocessed industry has deceived the Brazilian health agency

05.04.21 | Por João Peres

A document obtained by Joio reveals the strategies of corporations to block the adoption of a labeling model that could discourage the consumption of ultra-processed products

English

The day the junk food industry attempted to block the publication of the Brazilian Dietary Guidelines

13.11.19 | Por João Peres

The former Minister of Health explains how he was pressured by Big Food to bury the document, a reference in this area Arthur Chioro had just assumed his role as the Health Minister of Brazil in February 2014 when he was asked to attend an event in Brasilia. What was meant to be a laid-back […]

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