How Brazil became the world's soybean superpower — and what it costs
Around 170 million tonnes a year, most of it sold to China: the soy complex is Brazil's trade engine and its hardest environmental argument. The system, explained.
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Brazil's companies, agribusiness, fintech and creative economy.
The standing forest that pays: açaí and the Amazon's bioeconomy
Pará grows most of the world's açaí in floodplain agroforestry that keeps forest standing. Now the state is trying to scale the model beyond one berry.
The purple card at 100 million customers: Nubank and Brazil's fintech decade
A startup founded to fight bank fees became Latin America's largest digital bank and dragged the whole system — including the central bank — into real-time finance.
Four-dollar coffee: how Brazil's weather became a global price
Brazil grows about a third of the world's coffee, and when drought and frost hit its arabica belt, futures set records and the world pays more. The mechanics of a market shock.