ANBA Bulletin, July 25, 2018

The Global Agribusiness Forum is the highlight of your ANBA Bulletin this Wednesday (25). The event held this week in São Paulo featured the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI)'s international offices diretor Omar Khan (pictured above) as a speaker. The DCCI also had a stand of its own. Khan said the goal is to encourage Dubai-based companies to come do business in Brazil and vice versa. He also said Brazil-Dubai agricultural trade could increase. “There’s room for growth, there are many different opportunities, especially to small and medium-sized companies,” Khan told Bruna Garcia.

The Forum also saw Brazil's minister of Agriculture Blairo Maggi launch an eco-friendly label for Brazilian farm products, Brasil Agro: Food for Nature, a certificate ensuring that goods meet certain requirements and are traceable all the way to their source. He added that grain production is expected to go up 30% over the next ten years in Brazil, while the meat industry is poised to grow 27%.

And the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce was at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Business Forum last week at the UN headquarters in New York. The Chamber's international business executive Fernanda Baltazar said the event showed sustainability can be profitable.

Moroccan writer to come to FLIP

São Paulo – French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani (pictured above) is one of the writers invited to take part in the 16^th Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), which begins this Wednesday (25) in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. She will be in the event’s main programme, which will feature 27 local and international authors.

Brazil launches agro-sustainability label

UN Forum shows sustainability can be profitable

Moroccan writer to come to FLIP

Saudi Arabia set to launch the world’s largest halal center

Brazil’s Foreign Trade Association export forecast up