Brazil’s wind farms have been a huge success. So why isn’t everybody reaping the benefits?

While the country’s ambition is to be the ‘Saudi Arabia of green energy’, communities in the north-east are bearing the cost in diminished health and livelihoods Beneath the power lines cutting across Antonio de Souza’s property in Serra do Mel, in north-east Brazil ’s Rio Grande do Norte state, rows of cashew trees once stood – until the clean energy company ordered them to be cut down.

De Souza cannot plant crops in the affected area and the…