In the Brazilian Agribusiness Forum, Arab Brazilian Chamber president Rubens Hannun discussed the challenge and the opportunity for Brazilians in value-added selling. The event took place online on Monday, 19.
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In January, Brazil’s revenue from exports to the Arabs climbed 74% from a year ago.
Overall, food and beverage exports from Brazil climbed 11.4% from 2019. Despite a slump, Arabs are the second largest purchasing bloc of food products from Brazil.
How are the Brazilian and Arab economies in this second year of COVID-19? Which innovations will the world live with from now? These are some of the topics of the webinar the ABCC will host on Thursday (11), when it will also present its 2021 activities calendar.
Agribusiness products were the top exports from Brazil to the bloc, which reached USD 11.47 billion, down 6.3%. Decline was lower than in other Brazil’s foreign partnerships, though.
Speaking during a panel this Wednesday (21) on “Food Security: A strategic partnership between Brazil and the Arab Countries?” within the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries, Brazilian and Arab authorities said the focus must shift away from attaining self-sufficiency in food production and towards which crops are best suited to each region.
Helping small businesses recover from the impact of the pandemic is one of the challenges facing these organizations, it was said in the discussion that wrapped up the first day of the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries.
The generation that was born between 1980 and 1995 and the younger generations will demand that governments and companies have a larger commitment with the environment and society. Adam Smiley Poswolsky addressed the topic in ABCC forum.
‘For me, there’s a new world order now,” El-Sewedy Electrometer CEO Emad El-Sewedy said during a panel of the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries, which also featured New Development Bank (NDB) president Marcos Troyjo and ABCC Marketing VP Riad Younes.
While kicking off the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries this Monday (19), president Jair Bolsonaro said he is certain that Brazilian-Arab relations have never been better.
During the opening ceremony of the Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries this Monday (19), ABCC president Rubens Hannun addressed the perspectives for the relations between the two regions and their synergy.
The online event which the Arab Chamber will host as of next Monday (19) will feature Arab League secretary-general Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ouided Bouchamaoui of Tunisia, UAE Food Security minister Mariam Almheiri, and sheikha Hessa Saad, among other prominent Arab figures.
Based in São Paulo, Ana Laura Deleon is Uruguayan and launched in August her website Estudios Arabes e Islamicos. She aims at taking information on the Arab countries to Spanish speakers.
The Economic Forum Brazil & Arab Countries will be hosted by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce from October 19 to 22. It will feature an online exhibition environment for participants to network and do business in.
