Feb 19, 2018

In the fifth episode of our Growing Brazil podcast series, we turn the spotlight onto Brazil's cellulose pulp and paper sector. This sector enjoys some natural competitive advantages thanks to the world-beating rate of growth of raw material—mostly eucalyptus trees—produced on Brazil's plantations and private farms....

Nov 28, 2017

In this podcast, Rabobank Brazil's research specialist for the coffee sector, Guilherme Morya, highlights key trends set to influence Brazilian coffee production now and in the future.

Oct 30, 2017

Brazil's sugarcane industry pioneered large scale biofuel production in the 1970s, and later, in the 1990s, emerged as a major player on the world sugar market. More recently, this industry has seen its fair share of euphoria and despair over the last decade, and output has been static for the last five years. Andy...

Oct 4, 2017

In terms of area planted and export revenue generated, there is no crop that is more representative of Brazilian agribusiness than soybeans. In this podcast, Rabobank Brazil's grains specialist Victor Ikeda discusses the long term outlook for Brazilian soybean production and the main factors driving demand in the...

Sep 15, 2017

In this episode, Adolfo Fontes, animal protein specialist at Rabobank São Paulo, describes how Brazil's beef sector is adapting its production systems in order to maintain future growth in beef output while at the same time reducing pasture area and releasing land for conversion from pasture to grain production....