Brazil Agriculture: Winning the Great Farms Race |
There’s plenty of bustle in agricultural regions like Bebedouro in São Paulo state and the state of Mato Grosso and in port cities like Paranaguá, Recife and Santos. The cast of characters in Brazil’s agricultural development includes names like Nixon, Rockefeller and the fictional Colombian coffee farmer Juan Valdez.
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Maringá, Paraná: Shoppping in Fashion |
Our correspondent could hardly control himself: “You rarely find such quality and loveliness at such low prices.” Fashion paradise in Southern Brazil. Just one drawback: no plastic. Buy now or buy never.
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Santa Catarina Tourism Bureau Turns to Cal State Hayward |
Few North American travelers make it down to southern Brazil. A group of transnational executive MBA students from California is out to help Santa Catarina attract visitors from the United States.
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Brazil Fashion: Protecting the Amazon in Style |
A small company in Brazil is working to bridge the gap between good fashion sense and green sensibilities - with considerable success. AmazonLife has developed and patented an environmentally friendly material that it calls “wild rubber” or “vegetal leather.” The company already supplies a number of European fashion designers.
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Brazil Events |
Links to websites that list Brazil-related events.
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Jean Paul Jacob: the Old Man and the Future |
After nearly four decades at IBM, Brazilian Jean Paul Jacob managed to convince the IT giant to pay him to read, watch television, harangue colleagues, and give an occasional talk. The perfect job. But what Jacob really does is gaze into the future by looking at the past.
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