Cargill’s recent announcement of policies to achieve zero-deforestation in its supply chains comes at a crucial moment for the Brazilian Cerrado, which is being destroyed at a breakneck rate, primarily for soy and cattle production.

Coffee exporters in one of the world’s top producers are facing losses as they struggle to get their hands on beans, with weak prices dissuading farmers from selling.

 Brazil is expected to become the leading soybean producer worldwide surpassing the United States, according to a Dec. 27 Global Agricultural Information Network report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Brazil is expected to produce more than 6.000 tons of macadamia nuts this year, and these volumes have been experiencing growth due to high demand throughout the world.

CNH Industrial aims to expand connectivity to 13 million hectares in Brazil by 2021.
 
CNH Industrial is one of the founders and leaders of ConectarAGRO, a non-profit association that aims to bring internet to all agricultural and remote regions of the Brazil.

When marize porto’s husband died suddenly in 2002, she was left with three small children and a failing cattle ranch that she had no idea how to run.

Near Eliane Righi’s house in an agrarian reform settlement of Bordolândia, a forest grows that she helped to plant. In this transitional area between the Amazon and the Brazilian savanna of Cerrado, species native to the region prosper—a scenario very different from ten years ago, when not a single tree grew in the 56,000 hectares.

Pesticides banned in the EU because of their links to human health risks are being exported and used on farms in Brazil supplying Nestlé, an investigation has revealed.

Brazilian chicken meat exports totalled 2.629 million tonnes in the first half of 2023, an 8.5% increase compared to 2.423 million tonnes in the same period last year.

Most people would look at the paradisiacal coast of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and think of beachy holidays and the place where F1 star driver Lewis Hamilton chose to celebrate New Year’s Eve 2023.

Images of dozens of freshwater dolphin carcasses and cracked soil where once laid navigable rivers shocked the world in 2023, as the worst drought in history hit the Brazilian Amazon.

Brazil, already a dominant force in global agriculture as a leading producer and exporter of multiple commodities, is steadfastly working to grow its domestic wheat production and become self-sufficient within the next decade.