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Brazil Becomes the New Food Superpower

June 28th, 2008 Posted in Agriculture, Brazil, Food and Beverages
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US News and World Report
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 is Brazil that is stepping forward to stock its pantries.

With ample sun and fresh water and more available arable land than any other country, Brazil seems to be on a historic trajectory to becoming the next great global breadbasket. “Brazil can be No. 1 in the future in agricultural production,” asserts André Nassar, a leading agricultural economist based in São Paulo. “I think we will exceed the U.S.”

Brazil has already achieved some eye-popping gains. It is now the top world exporter of beef, poultry, soybeans, sugar, coffee, and orange juice. It is rising in other categories. Soy yields this year here in the central-western state of Mato Grosso are the best ever, reaching levels seen in Iowa and Minnesota. And Brazil looks to widen its lead as the top global exporter of ethanol as a result of its low-cost processing of sugar cane.

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Renuka Sugars importing sugar from Brazil

June 28th, 2008 Posted in Brazil, Commodities, Food and Beverages, India
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Bloomberg.com:
Shree Renuka will import raw sugar from Brazil and Thailand for the refinery as local supplies may not be sufficient, Murkumbi said. The company signed a three-year agreement with Brazil’s Grupo Copersucar in 2006 to buy raw sugar.

“We are currently using locally sourced raw sugar,” Murkumbi said. “We are talking to Copersucar about future imports.”

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Theory Talks: The Global South

June 28th, 2008 Posted in Brazil, India
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Theory Talks:Timothy Shaw
Luckily, Brazil and India are different then China and Russia, in the sense that in those first two, civil societies actually play a role; if these countries show some kind of south-south solidarity (and I think they will), Africa’s future might well be a lot brighter.

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Number of dollar millionaires around the world exceeds 10m

June 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Culture and Society, Brazil, India
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The Guardian
The number of dollar millionaires in Indias red-hot economy grew by 22.7%, China followed with growth of 20.3% and Brazil came next with 19.1%.

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Comparative Study of Copyright in Brazil, India and South Africa

June 15th, 2008 Posted in Brazil, India, Public Policy
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iCommons.org
Legal scholar and Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Upendra Baxi argues that the constitutional imagination of Brazil, India and South Africa are all premised on a shared history of violence and sharp inequalities. In the case of India, the birth of the constitution was preceded by the experience of colonialism and the violence of partition, in Brazil the traumatic experience of military dictatorships and in the case of South Africa the experience of apartheid. In other words, in all there countries the constitution emerged as a text of hope against a traumatic past, and the constitution was not merely a liberal document of governance, but a promissory note for a more just and equitable future. Baxi terms these as “transformative constitutions” whose responsibility to history is documented in the kind of promises made in chapters of the rights of individuals, as well as in the recognition of collective rights.

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India’s Farmers Turning Sour on Sugar

June 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
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VOA News
Jain says India, which used to be the world’s largest sugar producer and the biggest consumer of the sweetener, has not had to import sugar since 2005.

“Production is going to drop very steeply in the coming year. And, also, in the following year, thereafter we may have to go for sizable imports of raw sugar as we did in the past,” said Jain.

India’s annual domestic demand is estimated at 23 million metric tons. Current output is about 3.5 million tons above that. But the sugar mills association predicts with the exodus from cane farming output will drop to as low as 17 million tons in a couple of years.

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Miriam Leitao: A Farewell to Isolation

June 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
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via PostGlobal at washingtonpost.com
there is no longer such a thing as an isolated community. Even our isolated, painted-black-and-red men have no idea of the extent to which they are linked to other human communities.

The world agenda is overloaded with concerns about the supply and price of food. It’s a problem in Brazil, India, China, U.S. Agflation is a new word for this unexpected global urgency. Some world leaders are eagerly looking for a scapegoat, and it’s easy to pin guilt on biofuel. Brazil began producing bioenergy in the 1980s. Since then Brazilian food production and productivity have been increasing annually. Now, more than 40% of car fuel is produced from sugar cane. The production of ethanol is increasing and so are other crops. Over the last 15 years Brazilian grain harvest has increased by 125%, but cultivated land area has grown only 27%. There is no competition, here, between food production and bioenergy. But this concern about the shortage of food has been used as argument to support the idea that we must tolerate some level of deforestation to enlarge food production. In fact, that’s a false choice: Brazil has a lot of land available to harvest. It doesn’t need to invade the forest.

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New World Bioenergy Association Formed

June 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
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University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research:
Aiming to be the global voice for bioenergy and to promote the use of biomass in a sustainable and economical way, the World Bioenergy Association (WBA) has been formed.

Douglas Bradley, President of the Canadian Bioenergy Association (CANBIO) was appointed to represent Canada as a Board Member. Other intended members include the U.S., Australia, Japan, India, Brazil, Sweden and other EU countries.

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India may resume import of sugar after a 4-year gap

June 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
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via Bloomberg.com
India, the world’s second-biggest sugar maker after Brazil, may resume imports of the sweetener after four years as farmers plant less sugar cane because of declining prices.

Purchases of raw sugar may total 4 million metric tons in the year starting October 2009, S.L. Jain, director general of the Indian Sugar Mills Association, said in a phone interview in New Delhi. India hasn’t imported sugar since 2005, he said.

“Imports are imminent as a shortage is knocking at your door,” said Jain. Output may fall as low as 17 million tons in 2009-10, from an estimated 22 million tons in the previous year.

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India by way of Brazil

June 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
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I’m reading John Crow‘s the Epic of Latin America. (ed. 1971). Interesting piece of info. Brazil was “discovered” by Alvares Cabral while trying to follow Vasco da Gama to India. da Gama landed in Calicut, on the Kerala coast in 1498 and established a monopoly on the spice trade with the East.

The natives of India had not exactly greeted da Gama with open arms, and other European powers might any day try to force their way in, so a large fleet was sent to establish Portuguese rule there[in India] beyond any shadow of a doubt.  There were 13 ships bearing the red cross of Portugal on their sails, and about 1500 men all under the command of Captain Alvares Cabral.

Gama warned Cabal about getting caught in the doldrums off the African coast, and he sailed far to the west and unexpectedly (say some reports) landed on the coast of Brazil in 1500.

Early Brazilian history is vague and nebulous. There were no great marches of conquistadores, no rich native cities to seek and plunder, and for over 30 years there were no fixed Portuguese centers. Brazil was strictly a business side line and nothing more for the moment – a mere stopping off place on the voyage to India.

There’s been a wee bit of change in Brazil’s strategic significance since then.

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