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

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

Brazil Agro

🐷 A really pig deal

Sep 8, 2025

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3 min read

🐷 A really pig deal

Brazil has seen record pork production and exports, driven by rising demand in Asia and at home.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🧑🏼‍🌾 States sow capital

Sep 1, 2025

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4 min read

🧑🏼‍🌾 States sow capital

Brazil’s leading farm states are turning to capital markets to bankroll crops as traditional credit falls short.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌾 Return of the soybean wars

Aug 25, 2025

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4 min read

🌾 Return of the soybean wars

As China bolsters soybean imports from Brazil, US farmers claim tariff disputes are hurting their business. Plus, antitrust watchdog CADE halts the Soy Moratorium.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🍔 A beefed-up merger

Aug 18, 2025

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3 min read

🍔 A beefed-up merger

Two of Brazil’s largest meat producers, BRF and Marfrig, are close to a merger that will further consolidate the country’s protein market.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🤔 Agro in a bind

Aug 11, 2025

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4 min read

🤔 Agro in a bind

The agribusiness sector has long supported far-right politics in Brazil. But now it is taking a tariff hit motivated by former President Jair Bolsonaro’s push to evade a criminal conviction.

Letícia Arcoverde
Letícia Arcoverde

Brazil Agro

🌍 Seeds of influence

Aug 4, 2025

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9 min read

🌍 Seeds of influence

In a bid to deepen its strategic ties, Brazil is striking new deals to export its agricultural know-how to African nations.

Sophia Santos-Pearcy
Sophia Santos-Pearcy
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