Mato Grosso is Brazil's top soybean producer and accounts for two-thirds of the country's corn ethanol output, which has ...

Brazilian farmers are increasing soybean production as the U.S. and China engage in a trade fight. The conflict has shut ...

In the Brazilian state of Para, deep in the Amazon, mile upon mile of deforested land flanks the dusty road. Pastureland ...

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 ...

Brazil plans to blast rocky rapids on the Tocantins River to carve a shipping lane for soy and corn barges, a move that could ...

Farm Rio is a now a certified B Corp after its owner Grupo Soma earned a qualifying score from the B Lab nonprofit working to make business a “force for good.” With a score of 85.1 points out of 200 ...

(Reuters) -Brazil is positioning itself to overtake Vietnam as the world's largest robusta coffee producer, driven by the crop's climate resilience and growing global demand, according to a report by ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -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. The IBC-Br index, a ...

SAO PAULO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Soy farming has been linked to a rise in child cancer deaths in Brazil, the world's biggest producer and exporter of the oilseed and one of the top users of pesticides for ...

Deforestation, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, is the main reason Brazil is the world's sixth-largest emitter of ...