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As the soybean planting reaches 98% complete, some farmers in Brazil are already harvesting the 2019 crop.

Decisions to sell or store soybeans are facing farmers in the first-cut soybean areas.

Israel and Brazil have signed an agreement to invest $5 million in technology cooperation and innovation over the next five years.

The president of Brazil's poultry & pork exporters association ABPA, Francisco Turra, said on Thursday he opposes a plan by the country's President-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.Turra told reporters at a press conference that the move could be bad for exporters, which could lose some of their businesses to countries in the Middle East. 

Brazil recently elected a new president, Jair Bolsonaro. Although he has given worrying statements related to the environment, Brazil’s agricultural organisations point to the fact that capable people have been appointed to deal with the sector’s challenges.

It’s pretty common for bilateral deals that were worked out ahead of time to be celebrated at multi-national international conferences. That’s how a deal to allow Argentina to export raw beef to the United States came about on the sidelines of the G20 in Buenos Aires.

China and Ecuador on Wednesday signed a cooperative document to jointly advance the Belt and Road initiative (BRI).

Brazil's outgoing Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi said on Wednesday that South American trade bloc Mercosur is ready to close a trade agreement with the European Union but it is being held up because the Europeans do not want to close a deal.

Argentina is exploring the possibilities of collaboration in science and technology with Qatar, the South American nation's Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie has said.

The recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Argentina for the G20 summit briefly brought focus on India’s engagement with Latin America (LA)

China's role in the world changed from inward development to becoming the second largest economy in the world that is aggressively looking outward. Brazil Government.

Domestic soybean crush needs are driving soybean imports, including from the US, while ongoing trade challenges between the US and China boost prices.

When right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil in October, environmental groups raised concerns about what his presidency could mean for the future of the Amazon rainforest and the global fight against climate change. Now, Bolsonaro's choice for environment minister appears to justify those concerns.

L'Amérique latine connaîtra-t-elle son propre «Brexit»? La bombe a été lâchée par Tereza Cristina, future ministre de l'Agriculture du Brésil, qui a déclaré que son pays pourrait quitter le Mercosur, la zone de libre-échange du continent, si celui-ci n'était pas réformé en profondeur.

Après la Tunisie, Jesús María Silveyra, le secrétaire adjoint des marchés agro-industriels auprès du ministère de l'Agriculture d'Argentine, est venu au Maroc où il a été reçu, tour à tour, par les autorités gouvernementales, la CGEM et la FNCL.

Colombian voters made Ivan Duque, an ambitious populist conservative, their next president, garnering 54 percent of the vote. The country’s future—and its attractiveness for global business investment—will be impacted by Mr. Duque’s administration as the country approaches a critical opportunity to grow as a South American and global economic leader.

The vast Amazon forest may be hard to penetrate, posing a problem for authorities trying to stop illegal logging but there are still eyes in the sky keeping track of the destruction.

Abiove, a Brazil-based association of oilseeds traders, is proposing the creation of a fund to reward farmers who can preserve native vegetation on their soy farms in the Cerrado region, Brazil's tropical savanna.

Dutch and Argentinian experts took part in the Workshop "Redesigning the Argentinian Horticultural Chain", organized by the Secretariat for Agribusiness together with the University of Wageningen (WUR) and the Embassy of the Netherlands. The goal is to improve the quality and efficiency in the sector's production.

The Brazilian government approved consultations at the World Trade Organization regarding subsidies it says India gives to cane producers and sugar exporters, Brazil's trade ministry said.

Currently, markets don't seem too impressed with the negotiations to day, or the potential for them to improve later.

Climate-smart agriculture boosts yields, mitigates extreme weather impact and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. A study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Central America, Africa and Asia points to profitable opportunities for farmers and the environment.

Eco.business Fund invests in sustainable agriculture, fishery, forestry and tourism initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has taken $60 million in debt financing from IDB Invest, part of the Inter-American Development Bank. 

During the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week, Argentina and China reached a trade agreement on, among other things, cherry exports, as the South American country strives to become “the world’s supermarket.”

Brazil has released its worst annual deforestation figures in a decade amid fears that the situation might worsen when the avowedly anti-environmentalist president-elect Jair Bolsonaro takes power.

Middle-class demand for the fashionable fruit has contributed to water stress and deforestation in Mexico and Chile