RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Tiete-Parana waterway, a key transport corridor for soybeans, corn, cellulose, fertilizer and other agricultural products, has reopened after a 20-month closure due to ...

As we approach COP26 under the growing imperatives of sustainable development and climate action, the international community must make the most of the opportunity to ensure ambitious results in ...

The U.S. investigation into Brazil’s trade practices will include looking into whether illegal deforestation gives Brazilian farmers and ranchers an unfair advantage over their U.S. counterparts by ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's agricultural research agency Embrapa, which helped turn the country into a leading grains exporter, is preparing a 12-year research program that could do the same for ...

Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.

SÃO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Agricultural enterprises in Brazil are investing in new digital technologies and services to transform their operations for increased scale and efficiency, according to a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Plans by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva to revive vast swaths of degraded pasture are key to his push to protect Brazil's Amazon without alienating ...

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(Bloomberg) -- Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said Brazil should join China’s Belt and Road Initiative to counter protectionist measures from the US and European Union, an idea that has divided ...

Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness ...

Brazil is the world's biggest exporter of beef, poultry, orange juice and sugar cane. It also supplies a quarter of the world's soybeans. A group of scientists is credited with turning Brazil into the ...