Thanks to its cheap labor, year-round harvests and close ties with mega-buyer Beijing, Brazil has rapidly encroached on the US’s long-held position as the world’s top supplier of key crops. Now, it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Embrapa plans 12-year cannabis research program Anvisa expected to approve cannabis research this year Court ruling allows hemp planting for medicinal use SAO PAULO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Brazil's ...

Preta Terra’s agroforestry project, left, beside a monoculture farm, in Timburi, Brazil, on March 29.Victor Moriyama for TIME In a field of bare red dirt in São Paulo state, Paula Costa is trying to ...

Agriculture officials from the nations gather as US-China tariff wars prioritise Beijing's need for alternative sources of soybean and beef Senior Brazilian and Chinese agriculture officials are to ...

The virus was found at a facility in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the country’s agriculture ministry said in a statement. It said a contingency plan has been implemented “not only to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...