Brazil’s agricultural output expected to rise
Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and a world leader in exports of soybeans, sugar, orange juice, and coffee. It is also one of the top producers and exporters of cotton, poultry, and beef. This trend of Brazilian dominance in agriculture seems poised to continue with an expected 8.5% increase in production for grains, legumes, and [...]
Agriculture Opportunities in Latin America – Speech at CII Partnership Summit
I was invited to speak at the CII Partnership Summit held in Chennai at the session on New Trade Routes. I spoke on how Latin/South America is well-positioned as the world’s agriculture outsourcing hub, and can meet India’s needs for food security. See video below:
The recent price rise in food items which has caused heartache [...]
India on verge of farm disaster: M.S. Swaminathan
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India was the leading economy of the world for much of the last 2000 years from wealth generated from agricultural surplus. As Jim Rogers says, India should be the greatest agricultural country in the world, not America, with great weather, soils, climate. But, government policies militate against farming as a lucrative [...]
A company for Indian farmers
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livemint.com
The reason why many of the government’s well-intended measures fail is not far to seek. The actual problem that farmers face today is low incomes due to the absence of post-harvest infrastructure, low value addition and absence of organized marketing processes. The solution, in fact, lies in ensuring that farmers get a higher [...]
Brazil Becomes the New Food Superpower
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With millions of people literally hungering for affordable food, Brazil’s breakthroughs in tropical agriculture may prove to be the key to feeding a growing global population. If Saudi Arabia fills the world’s gas stations, China assembles its consumer goods, and India vies to staff its office services, then it [...]
Argentina misses out on grain bonanza as farm crisis sparks fears of economic downturn
From a sound economic point of view, it is more effective for governments to make direct cash transfers or provide vouchers to the poor than to mess with the price mechanism this way. Government-induced price distortions always end in more tears for the poor. Politicians around the world seems to have trouble with the concept [...]
Sowing seeds of success
Follow-up to the NYT article a few days ago. In fact, a couple of lines in this article refer to quotes in that article.
viaThe Economic Times
Countries are on a global hunt to secure for themselves supplies of all commodities — metals, energy and food — that they consider of strategic importance for their future [...]
China, India and climate change
Brazil/Argentina are logical partners for India’s food security.
via Economist.com
The impact of climate change on India…is likely to be worse. According to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, India’s agriculture will suffer more than any other country’s. Assuming a global temperature increase of 4.4°C over cultivated areas by 2080, India’s agricultural output is projected to fall [...]
The Food Chain – Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming
What needs to be replicated by Indian players in LatAm.
via NYTimes.com
a few big private investors are starting to make bolder and longer-term bets that the world’s need for food will greatly increase — by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment.
[T]hree institutional investors, including the giant BlackRock fund group in New York, are separately [...]
MoU between India and Brazil for cooperation in the field of agriculture
via Thaindian News
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the signing of an agriculture cooperation agreement between India and Brazil.
The pact also includes clauses for cooperation in allied sectors such as research and development, production technologies and equipment, financing and micro-credit system for small farmers, post harvest management, agro and food processing, cold chain [...]
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