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For all things agriculture, Brazil Agro covers the food security insights that shape global markets.

Brazil Agro

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

Dec 29, 2025

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7 min read

🥜 Brazilian peanuts

Brazil's peanut output has seen strong growth in past years through exports. Now, farmers want to find the same success with the domestic market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌎 Expanding markets

Dec 22, 2025

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7 min read

🌎 Expanding markets

The Brazilian government has accessed over 500 new agricultural markets in the past three years, in an attempt to diversify its export mix beyond soybeans and China.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🚬 Up in smoke

Dec 15, 2025

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9 min read

🚬 Up in smoke

With smoking rates going down and e-cigarettes encroaching, Brazil launches a new program for tobacco farmers seeking to leave the sector.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🥩 China’s got beef

Dec 8, 2025

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10 min read

🥩 China’s got beef

China is extending its sweeping review of beef imports, which could be bad news for producers in Brazil.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🫏 Donkey trade

Dec 1, 2025

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9 min read

🫏 Donkey trade

Once a staple of simple rural life, Brazilian donkeys are being slaughtered to feed an international market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry

Nov 24, 2025

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9 min read

🐔 The EU’s U-turn on Brazilian poultry

After a seven-year suspension, Brazilian poultry will return to a pre-listing system that streamlines exports to the European Union.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

☔ Sowing risk

Nov 17, 2025

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9 min read

☔ Sowing risk

Despite its major farming sector, Brazil’s agricultural insurance market never fully developed, and crop coverage is at an all-time low.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🐟 Fishy dilemma

Nov 10, 2025

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8 min read

🐟 Fishy dilemma

Brazil’s tilapia farming sector is thriving. But the fish isn’t native to the country, and its introduction has caused environmental issues.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌾 Soybean wars are back

Nov 3, 2025

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9 min read

🌾 Soybean wars are back

China and the US have struck a trade truce that includes ending the Chinese boycott of American soybeans. What does the new outlook mean for Brazilian farmers?

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🚜 No pain, no grain

Oct 27, 2025

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11 min read

🚜 No pain, no grain

A volatile commodities market and high interest rates have driven a sharp rise in loan defaults among Brazilian farmers.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌳 Climate dispute

Oct 20, 2025

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10 min read

🌳 Climate dispute

Agribusiness does not want to be responsible for the lion’s share of Brazil’s carbon emission goals.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🍚 Rice and fall

Oct 13, 2025

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4 min read

🍚 Rice and fall

Rice farmers brace for a hard year after prices plummeted. While the food is still a staple of traditional meals, Brazilians have been eating less and less of it

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

👩🏻‍🔬 High potential

Oct 6, 2025

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3 min read

👩🏻‍🔬 High potential

Despite pressure from a developing sector and its own agricultural research agency, Brazil has once again delayed regulating medicinal and industrial cannabis.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌾 Top crop

Sep 29, 2025

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3 min read

🌾 Top crop

With a long history of dominance, soybean is still Brazil’s top farming output. But it has weathered rough periods.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

☕ Brewing problems

Sep 22, 2025

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3 min read

☕ Brewing problems

A poor harvest and Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazilian coffee have fueled market speculation and sent prices soaring in the United States and beyond.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🔁 Turning degradation into productivity

Sep 15, 2025

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4 min read

🔁 Turning degradation into productivity

Pasture restoration is among Brazil’s big bets against deforestation, making already-degraded lands productive again.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde
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