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WINNIPEG, Manitoba/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Taking a page from its aggressive growth strategy in the United States, cash-rich Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien Ltd plans to plow investment into ...
But business in Brazil's farm sector - the world's fastest growing - strays far from the usual practices in North America's farm belt, where Nutrien is a top supplier of fertilizer, chemicals and ...
Armed men backed by farmers in trucks and tractors attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil's farming state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the weekend, injuring 11 of them, government ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity intensified in many places. In the second quarter of 2020, there were multiple warnings of famine later in the year. [3] [4] In an early report, the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Oxfam-International talks about "economic devastation" [5] while the lead-author of the UNU-WIDER report compared COVID-19 to a "poverty tsunami". [6]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil has resulted in 37,511,921 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 702,116 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020, [4] when a man from São Paulo who had traveled to Italy [5] tested positive for the virus. The disease had spread to every federative unit of Brazil by 21 March ...
Instituto Terra has helped to restore more than 550 acres of forest in Brazil.
Small-scale farmers have been embracing digital technologies as a way to directly sell produce, and community-supported agriculture and direct-sell delivery systems are on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic. [14] Newly-homebound workers became interested in baking. [15]
(Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is looking to increase the amount of cheap credit for farmers to spur environmentally friendly practices.Most Read from ...