Tatiana Freitas

A TOUCH-BUY POLICY IN MIAMI BEACH | Pictured: Store policies for entry are posted at the Pelé Soccer store on Lincoln Road, May 20, 2020, in Miami Beach. The city has begun to allow the reopening of nonessential retail and personal grooming businesses, as well as offices and museums.

Hunger is threatening to kill more people than COVID this year

September 1, 2020 at 9:53 a.m.

The world is hurtling toward an unprecedented hunger crisis. As many as 132 million more people than previously projected could go hungry in 2020, and this year's gain may be...

Amid a supply squeeze, Brazil is shipping corn to U.S.

June 10, 2018 at 12:26 p.m.

Corn from Brazil is heading to the U.S., the world's biggest exporter, just as the South American country grapples with a shortfall of the grain. The vessel, Samsun, is estimated...

Chicken producers in Brazil, faced with a corn shortage, thought they could import grain from the U.S. But the country's regulations regarding GMO foods has put a wrench in those plans.

GMO concerns stop Brazil chicken producers buying U.S. corn

June 10, 2018 at 1:18 p.m.

For Brazil's enormous chicken industry, facing a surprise domestic shortage of corn with which to feed its birds, the solution seemed obvious: import the grain from the United States, where...

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