Agribusiness and Sustainability in Brazil
The issues of global climate change, environmental preservation and food security have emerged as dominant themes on the international agenda. Nowhere is the convergence of these issues more apparent than in Brazila major food supplier and owner of more than 65 percent of the Amazon rain forestand, especially, in the state of Mato Grosso. As Brazil’s leading producer of various foodstuffs (it supplies 8 percent of the world’s soya) with its northern border along the “frontier” of the Amazon, Mato Grosso is at the center of the broader debate about economic development and environmental sustainability. (ref: BRZ 20081204pt1)
