Agriculture

• Monday, July 21st 2025 - 09:21 UTC

  Falklands’ delegation will be attending Expo-Prado next September in Uruguay

  

  The Falkland Islands Government welcomes expressions of interest from the community to form part of a delegation to represent the Falkland Islands at Expo Prado in Montevideo, Uruguay, in September 2025.

• Saturday, July 19th 2025 - 10:45 UTC

  Demand for Bolivian coffee on the rise

  

  Although not typically associated with Bolivia, this South American country has exported over 27,000 tons of high-quality coffee in the past decade, generating over US$108 million in revenue.

• Wednesday, July 16th 2025 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil eager to avert higher US tariffs

  

  Brazil is actively working to avert the implementation of 50% tariffs on its products by the United States, set to take effect on August 1 as announced by President Donald Trump. Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, along with other ministers, met with leaders from the industrial and agricultural sectors to discuss the severe potential impacts.

• Monday, July 14th 2025 - 06:48 UTC

  Food Price Index in June, higher for meat, dairy and vegetable oils

  

  The FAO Food Price Index, averaged 128.0 points in June 2025, up 0.5 percent from May. Although international prices of cereals and sugar fell, these declines were outweighed by higher prices for dairy products, meat and vegetable oils. The index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally traded food commodities, was, in June 2025, 5.8 percent higher compared to its level a year earlier but remained well below its peak in March 2022.

• Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:37 UTC

  Brazil maneuvering to resume chicken exports to Europe

  

  Brazil's Agriculture Minister Carlos Fávaro held a videoconference with EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi, this week to discuss lifting restrictions on the Brazilian chicken meat exports imposed after an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial farm in Montenegro, Río Grande do Sul, in May.

• Friday, July 11th 2025 - 19:08 UTC

  French farmers parade cows in front of the Brazilian Embassy

  

  Some 100 French farmers and ranchers paraded Wednesday in front of the Brazilian Embassy in Paris with Charolais cows and T-shirts reading “Beef producers furious!” as the National Beef Federation (Federation Nationale Bovine - FNB) demonstrated its strong opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the European Union (EU) and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

• Saturday, June 14th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

  FAO estimates record global cereal production in 2025/2026

  

  FAO also released a new Cereal Supply and Demand Brief, forecasting a record global cereal production of 2 911 million tons in 2025, up 2.1 percent from 2024. World cereal utilization is forecast to increase by 0.8 percent in 2025/26, reaching 2 898 million tons.

• Monday, June 9th 2025 - 20:18 UTC

  FAO Food Price Index dips in May amid lower cereal, sugar and vegetable oil prices

  

  The benchmark of world food commodity prices dropped in May as marked declines in international quotations for maize and palm oil outweighed historically high prices for butter and bovine meat, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported.

• Saturday, June 7th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

  Will Uruguay train Palestinians in sustainable agriculture?

  

  from the West Bank in sustainable agriculture, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin announced in Montevideo Friday.

• Wednesday, June 4th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

  Significant growth in Paraguayan exports reported

  

  Paraguayan exports have recorded significant improvements this year, according to reports released in Asunción this week.