The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

Each year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, with 95% of this deforestation occurring in tropical regions. South America is a major hotspot, with Brazil in particular facing severe forest loss — much of it driven by cattle ranching, which accounts for more than 70% of all…

Fires emitted 4.1 gigatonnes of greenhouse gases, more than four times the emissions from all commercial air travel in 2023

Brazil, set to host the COP30 climate conference later this year, lost the largest area of tropical forest in 2024.

Burning, worsened by global heating, overtook farming and logging as biggest cause of destruction of tropical forests

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) Tuesday closed down -0.11 (-0.63%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed down -2.40 (-0.49%). Sugar prices on Tuesday settled lower and posted 1-1/2 week lows. Over the past week, expectations for a global sugar surplus have weighed on prices....

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) Tuesday closed down -5.40 (-1.44%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) closed down -70 (-1.41%). Coffee prices on Tuesday fell sharply on the outlook for higher coffee production. On Monday, the USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) forecast that Brazil's 2025/26 coffee production will climb...

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) today is down -0.18 (-1.03%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) is down -3.10 (-0.63%). Sugar prices today are under pressure and fell to 1-1/2 week lows. Over the past week, expectations for a global sugar surplus have weighed on...

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) today is down -3.80 (-1.01%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) is down -57 (-1.15%). Coffee prices today are under pressure on the outlook for larger global supplies. On Monday, the USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) forecast that Brazil's 2025/26 coffee production will climb...

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July NY world sugar #11 (SBN25 ) Monday closed down -0.07 (-0.40%), and August London ICE white sugar #5 (SWQ25 ) closed down -0.60 (-0.12%). Sugar prices on Monday gave up an early advance and closed lower, with NY sugar falling to a 1-week low. Expectations for a global sugar...

July arabica coffee (KCN25 ) Monday closed up +9.05 (+2.48%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN25 ) closed up +108 (+2.22%). Coffee prices on Monday settled sharply higher due to lighter-than-normal rainfall in Brazil's coffee-growing regions. Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil's biggest arabica coffee growing area of Minas Gerais,...