Brazil will finish paving the key agriculture highway BR-163 and another small stretch of roadway connecting it to the river port of Miritituba by the end of this year, Infrastructure Minister ...

Given the fact that the value of the land surrounding the highway is set to increase once BR-163 is paved, clashes over land tenure and development are expected to increase. Dialogue It is 4pm and ...

Consortium Via Brasil has won the auction to operate Brazilian toll road BR 163, one of the main highways transporting grains from the center-west state of Mato Grosso to northern ports, according ...

President Jair Bolsonaro has revived a plan, conceived in the 1970s, to extend the BR-163 highway, the main soy corridor in Brazil, north to the border with Suriname. The road would cross 1,000 ...

Indigenous People Block BR-163 in Pará and Prevent the Transit of Trucks with Grains Kayapós affirm that the road brought disease to their villages and also seek compensation ...

Built in 1972, under a military dictatorship, the BR-163 road that crosses Brazil from north to south is both an artery essential to the economic development of the country and a path that ...

The road is used to transport soy and corn from center-west Brazil to northern exporting ports. Top grains producer Mato Grosso State is at the peak of winter corn harvesting.

The borders of BR-163 road, home to PDS Brasília, is one of the Amazon’s deforestation and fire hotspots. Image courtesy of Bruno Kelly/The Intercept Brasil.

Images show roads in Brazil, Uganda. The image of the muddy road in the Facebook post shows the BR-163 highway, part of the Trans-Amazonian highway in Brazil.The second picture in the post shows ...

Given the fact that the value of the land surrounding the highway is set to increase once BR-163 is paved, clashes over land tenure and development are expected to increase. Dialogue It is 4pm and ...