Agriculture accounts for nearly a quarter of Brazil's GDP and employs one in five Brazilians. These figures began their rise ...

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation.

RIACHAO DAS NEVES, Brazil (Reuters) - In the Brazilian state of Bahia, farmer Moises Schmidt is developing the world's largest cocoa farm. His plan is to revolutionize the way the main ingredient in ...

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 ...

(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 ...

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) -Test results for a suspected bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in the town of Anta Gorda in Rio Grande do Sul state came back negative, according to an analysis of ...

Millions of eggs destroyed in Brazil Several countries including China banned chicken imports from Brazil Sample from a duck found on a non-commercial farm being tested for bird flu MONTENEGRO, Brazil ...

U.S. and Brazil farms groups exchanged accusations in comments sent to U.S. officials investigating Brazil’s trade practices, highlighting sources of friction between two agricultural powerhouses. U.S ...

Brazil has more trees than any country except Russia—but when our huge forests make the news, it’s usually because of “deforestation.” My nation and its Amazon region are so incomprehensibly big that ...

This undated electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two Influenza A (H5N1) virions, a type of bird flu virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie Katz/CDC ...

A study has found that women exposed to pesticides during farm work in Brazil’s Paraná state have a 60% higher risk of developing breast cancer, and a 220% higher risk of metastasis. While they don’t ...