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Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 May 2011

Today's News - BRAZIL: Aid donor

Africa and neighbours benefit from $50m budget

Although Brazil's international development funds are still small compared to those of the industrialised world, the South American giant's foreign aid has grown considerably in the last eight years, and the country has gone from beneficiary of development assistance to donor.

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Thursday, 28 April 2011

Today's News - BRAZIL: Self-fertilising sugar

Mechanisation brings unexpected bonus to growers

The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical experts in the southern state of São Paulo, where most of Brazil's sugar and ethanol is produced.

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