Items Tagged with 'Latin America'

The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) partnership, a State Department-funded program aimed at building resilient crops and healthy soils globally, has expanded to Guatemala.

Much attention has been focused of late on the implications for Latin America of the US-China trade war, including in the agricultural sector, where Brazil has seemingly benefitted from growing demand for its abundant soy. Recent tariffs have pushed China to intensify trading with Latin America, contributing to the expectation that Brazil will become the leading soybean exporter for 2019-20, a distinction previously held by the US.