Brazil – Primal Group

US Trade War with China Spells Opportunity for Brazil

The recent trade war initiated by the US with tariffs against several of its major trade partners has led to a reshuffling of trade alliances across the world. One of the major winners of this trade war is Brazil. The South American superpower is now the largest exporter of soybeans to China and the eastern power has been making major infrastructure investments into Brazilian agriculture, marking the development of the trade partnership between the two countries. Brazil’s agriculture industry has been experiencing tremendous growth in recent years and this growth is expected to continue under a new government which has stated its support for the agriculture industry and foreign investment.…

Bolsonaro Wins Historic Brazilian Election – What it Means for the Agricultural Industry

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the national elections on Sunday by securing 55.1% of the ballots cast. The Social Liberal Party candidate campaigned on a conservative platform, promising to fight corruption, strengthen ties with the United States and loosen gun controls. The victory comes during a period mired by corruption scandals in Brazil and the biggest economic recession in the country’s history. In this strange climate, there has been one industry that has carried the economy through recession and is expected to continue growing in the future: agriculture. Despite what some consider far-right views, Bolsonaro has attracted the support of the agricultural sector in Brazil as his helm leaves the country’s buoyant food sector poised for further growth.…

Meet Our Project – 2018

As this year’s rainy season begins, we are starting to see immense progress on our plantations. Our neem and coconuts trees are thriving and we are continuously working to improve the development of our sustainable projects by investing into new infrastructure, integrating futuristic technologies and regenerative best-practices for our agricultural system.

Primal Group CEO Anthony J. Archer invites you to join us as we fly over our projects and take a look at our new facilities and infrastructure, that allow us to evolve a more sustainable future through agriculture.

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Through responsible crop management, implementing new input precision techniques and restoring critical ecosystems, we have redefined agriculture in the region and are shaping a thriving community around our projects.…

A Day at the Farm – Part 3

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Brazil’s Second Green Revolution – Pioneering the Evolution of Agriculture in Latin America and the World

Since the midpoint of the last century, Brazil’s progressive developments in agriculture have developed the country into the world’s 21st-century breadbasket. Transforming its tropical agriculture into a modern and resourceful one has allowed the country to become the world’s largest exporter of a variety of products like sugar, coffee, and tropical fruits.

For years, Brazilian agriculture has focused on transforming from a traditional production system with limited use of technologies, into one of the world’s most modern agricultural sectors – especially since the 1970s, an era which marked an important process of modernization, including advances in technological progress and gains in productivity.…

Brazil – Responding to Emerging Markets Uncertainty

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter”

– Winston Churchill

It’s not a view widely held and even less in evidence, but we believe that Dilma Rousseff deserves a lot of sympathy from the Brazilian electorate. Seven months into her second term, during which time the global environment for emerging markets has softened quite rapidly, the irony is that this technocrat ‘gets it’, and is making many of the tough financial decisions that investors demanded during much of her first term in office and which will accelerate a return to growth for the country.…

Brazil and the Benefits of Club Membership

The possible death throes of Greece’s membership of the Euro should not detract from the union’s core attractions. The forerunner of today’s European Community (EC), the European Economic Union (EEC) was set up as a trade body in 1958 to strengthen the economic and social ties across a violent and dysfunctional continent. Its two key members, France and Germany, had fought each other three times over the previous seventy-five years: it was reasoned that drawing both countries and their outliers together in a web of trade would allow for a more prosperous and peaceful continent. It’s worked and yet hand in hand with its enlargement, its ambitions have also expanded.…

Indispensable Partners in the Americas

“Brazil is not only one of the most important countries in the Western Hemisphere but is a global leader on a whole range of issues… including climate change, energy, educational exchanges, science and technology.” (Barack Obama, 2015)

“We have celebrated an upward trajectory in our relations.” (Dilma Rousseff, 2015)

Both sides can (rightly) claim that the first state visit by a Brazilian Head of State to the White House in a decade was a great success. The Summit reflected the strengthening and increasingly multi-faceted partnership between the top two economic powers in the Western Hemisphere, and highlighted significant trade opportunities and geo-strategic considerations for the rest of the world.…

Brazil is the Key to Freeing Trade in the Americas

Released at the end of May 2015, the latest Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women on earth ranked Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at number seven, in-between Christine Lagarde, in charge at the IMF, and Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. Compiled annually, the list assesses four criteria – the financial resources controlled by the candidate, her media presence, spheres of influence she is active in and how successfully she wields power. The latest Forbes ‘Powerful People’ list for 2014 positioned President Rousseff as 31^st on the list.

Considering the size, population, economic power and investment potential in Brazil, investors shouldn’t be surprised how prominently the country’s president features.…

Will The Real Brazil Please Stand Up

“Brazil is the country of the future; and will always remain so…”
Charles de Gaulle, President of France

“Wow! Brazil is big…”
George W. Bush, President of the USA

As the country beds down at the start of Dilma Rousseff’s second term as President, which Brazil will dominate for the rest of this decade, and possibly beyond?

There are two Brazils; the first comprises the world’s fifth largest both by size and population and its seventh largest economy, both nominally and by purchasing power parity. The country can only be described using a number of superlatives, underpinned by a wide range of improving and expanding indicators, and a generous and increasingly important resource base.…