Lenny Kravitz takes us on a tour of his incredible Brazilian farm compound. Built on an 18th-century coffee plantation, his home is set on a working farm that feeds every guest that passes by. Featuring a Brazilian barbecue, a full-sized football field and 19th-century Portuguese colonial-style farmhouses and outbuildings, it’s Read more…
Brazil’s startup scene is on fire as according to LAVCA, the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, venture funding in Brazil exploded in 2018 to $1.3 billion, representing nearly two-thirds of all venture money raised in Latin America as a whole last year. That’s 52 percent more than Read more…
Food companies in industrial countries are registering almost no economic growth. Large multinationals, such as Nestle and Unilever, started to look for a fix. The fix they found, by targeting threshold and developing countries, like Brazil and Kenya. The conglomerates are having success as they are making big bucks, yet, this comes Read more…
Sometimes a relatively ‘simple’ innovation can turn out to be an extraordinary find, especially when you consider that in the US alone, according to the The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, drowsy driving caused 72,000 crashes, 44,000 injuries, and 800 deaths in 2013! Ford Brazil decided to do something about this, and Read more…
Did you know that Brazil is the fourth largest (volume) food producer in the world? They are also a long way off from reaching their full potential. Currently Brazil has almost 70m hectares of farmland in production, yet, it is estimated that this can be sustainable increased to almost 300m Read more…
Ernst Götsch is a Swiss-born farmer who moved to Brazil in the early 80s. He was declared insane when in ’84 he bought 480 hectares of degraded farmland in the state of Bahia. Determined to revive the land in a sustainable and profitable manner, Götsch developed a set of principles and techniques that Read more…
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