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Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture has revealed that the South American country will export frozen bovine and bubaline semen to the Pakistan market for the first time.

Steaks, lamb, and "choripan," a sausage served between bread - world leaders at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires this week will be experiencing a traditional Argentine menu, the event's head catering chef told Reuters on Wednesday.In between discussing international trade, the global economy and climate change at the two-day summit, the Group of 20 world leaders will have the opportunity to sample the country's famously meat-heavy diet

The United Nations (UN) has urged the countries in Latin America to combat inequality and promote healthy and sustainable food systems.

The Aichi Target 11 aims to effectively preserve 17% of all land and continental waters – and 10% of all marine areas – by 2020.

For the first time in a decade, the number of people falling into poverty in rural Latin America and the Caribbean has increased by two million, according to a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which called the worrying trend a “historical reversal.

Third generation Colombian coffee farmer Mauricio Giraldo knows all too well the stress of seeing some of his crop rot on the tree because he cannot find enough workers to pick the cherry-like red fruit.

Paulo Artaxo from the University of Sao Paulo's examines the damage right-wing Jair Bolsonaro could do to one of the world's most important ecosystems, and what that would mean for the rest of us.

Leaders from the private sector, higher education, banking, and state and local governments formed a new domestic coalition vowing to help the Argentinean government deliver on and deepen its international climate commitments., , , , The announcement was made in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The  Alianza para la Acción Climática Argentina  includes municipalities located across the country, from the capital city of Buenos Aires, to Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego Province, and Iruya, Salta Province

À la fin du XIXe siècle, face à la rapide mondialisation des systèmes alimentaires, l'Argentine s'est positionnée comme exportatrice de matières premières agricoles. Par la suite, le pays s'est toujours montré réactif et adaptable aux évolutions de la demande mondiale. 

Argentina is due to begin exports of liquefied natural gas from a part of its vast Vaca Muerta shale gas resource next year through a floating LNG liquefaction (FLNG) vessel provided by Exmar, the Belgian shipping company said on Wednesday.

Paraguay is a country located in South America with a population of 6.8 million people, with much of its territory bordered by Brazil. Many people around the world still associate Paraguay with smuggling and drug trafficking in South America, but this is a misconception of a country that actually has great industrial and agricultural potential

Talks to allow Argentine soymeal livestock feed to enter China are progressing at a slower-than-hoped pace amid bureaucratic issues, including Chinese demands to inspect local crushing plants, the head of Argentina's soy industry chamber said on Thursday.

Officials in Argentina say they are close to signing an agreement with the U.S. that would allow two-way trade of fresh beef for the first time in nearly two decades.

Argentina is on the verge of signing a deal with the United States that would allow two-way trade of fresh beef for the first time in nearly two decades, the South American country's international trade secretary, Marisa Bircher, said.

There is one concrete project for doing business with Colombia – a country that is looking for agricultural machinery and technology for the post-harvest. The agricultural sector is spearheading the Colombian economic growth. The outlook seems increasingly promising thanks to the pacification process which is allowing the recovery of wide areas suitable for agriculture.

Only 18 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean live in rural areas, but these are increasingly hotbeds of poverty, and climate change is playing a major role in this phenomenon.

Despite progress fighting hunger over the past 30 years, Latin America appears to be on the cusp of a major relapse in malnutrition. A new U.N. report on food security paints a complex and increasingly worrisome picture of nutrition standards in the region, with both obesity and undernourishment on the rise.

Nearly 70 percent of all investigated foreign capital going to 9 major soy and beef firms responsible for major Amazon deforestation was transferred through tax havens between 2000-2011.

The beginning of this development dates from mid 1990s when scientist Raquel Chan’s team identified a gene (HB4) that confers sunflower seed with drought tolerance. In 2003, Bioceres reached an agreement with Conicet (the governmental Science and Technology Commission) to develop this finding commercially. In 2007, HB4 was transferred to other crops like soybean, maize and wheat, and now only one formal step is missing to release this technology to Argentinean farmers.

Germans are torn between conflicting desires. On the one hand, a love of meat – from the bratwurst sausage to schnitzel and salami – which is part of the national cultural identity; on the other, a growing commitment to environmental causes.