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The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has chosen Brazil, which in May reported its first outbreak of ...
The European Union has recognized Brazil as a bird-flu free country, a move that will allow the resumption of chicken meat exports to the bloc, Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on ...
Brazil's economic activity contracted in June, central bank data showed on Monday, reinforcing signs of a slowdown under the weight of high borrowing costs.
MONTENEGRO, Brazil (Reuters) -Officials and chicken farmers in Brazil have stepped up sanitary controls close to where the country's first case of avian influenza was found on a commercial farm ...
Brazil’s soybean moratorium, credited with curbing Amazon deforestation since 2006, faces an uncertain future after the ...
Scott Hennen writes, "Brazil now leads the world in corn and soybean exports, producing them 30% cheaper than we do. If we don’t level the playing field soon, we risk replaying the 1980s farm crisis." ...
Officials in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office are raising concerns about whether Brazil is doing enough to prevent ...
Ancient geoglyphs and archaeological sites are being plowed over by Brazil farmers growing soy, corn and sugar crops in the Amazon Basin.
This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower.
A Brazilian Farm Success Story Protecting the Forest Brazil is home to about one-eighth of the world’s forests. I’m one of many farmers who would like to keep it this way—and we will if the ...