Brazil’s Adaptive Rice Breakthrough Boosts Goiás Yields
In 2020, Embrapa unveiled the BRS A502, an adaptive rice variety that has reshaped farming in Brazil's Cerrado.
February 11, 2024Topic
Cerrado
Brazilian Farming Said to Span an Area Greater than Argentina
From 1985 to 2022, Brazil's farmland expanded by 50%, equivalent to the size of the Mato Grosso state or Pakistan...
October 6, 2023
Expert rebuts attacks on Brazilian agriculture
"At least five years ago, the environmentalists' greed for the Cerrado intensified," noted Ricardo Felício, a master in meteorology and
May 24, 2023
Brazil: Cerrado, where deforestation advances, is the focus of credit lines
By Camila Souza Ramos The Financial Innovation Initiative for Amazon, Cerrado, and Chaco (IFACC) intends to give more priority to...
May 18, 2023
First-ever carbon credits from protected areas of the Cerrado, Brazil’s second largest ecosystem
Brazilian aluminum producer "Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio" and green economy project developer "Reservas Votorantim" issued Latin America's first carbon credits...
August 31, 2022
How wheat could become Brazil’s new export commodity
In one of the country's largest agricultural cooperatives, Cotrijal, in the most Southern state Rio Grande do Sul, Wheat is...
May 8, 2022
Pirenópolis: History and Nature in Central-West Brazil
While places like Chapada dos Veadeiros or the national capital, Brasília, come readily to mind when the subject is Central-West...
November 13, 2021
Brazil loses 24 trees per second in 2020 as deforestation alerts explode – report
IBAMA has failed to attend to deforestation alerts by satellites monitoring Brazilian forest areas, according to data from MapBiomas project
June 11, 2021