“The Miracle of the Cerrado” – August 2010
The following article appeared in The Economist magazine on 26th August 2010:
The Miracle of the Cerrado
An “agricultural miracle” has enabled Brazil to turn itself in 30 years from a food importer into “one of the world’s great breadbaskets”, and to do so, astonishingly, without government subsidy, reports The Economist in its August 26th 2010 edition. A combination of natural resources, technology and private sector investment have has made it possible for Brazil to increase the amount of farmland under cultivation by a third since 1996, with the key being the transformation by large farming groups of its cerrado, or dry bush, in states such as Bahia (where Agrifirma has its operations) and Piaui. The full article can be read here: http://www.economist.com/node/16886442?story_id=16886442