Nowhere else on the planet do the debates over food, fuel and environmental conservation come together as they do in Brazil.
The country is the world’s leading exporter of a basket of agricultural commodities including soya and beef; it vies with the US to be the biggest producer of ethanol, which it makes it from sugar cane much more efficiently than US producers make it from maize; and it is home to most of the Amazon, easily the world’s biggest surviving tropical rainforest.
