‘Kitchen to the World’ is the largest exporter and importer of food products in Southeast Asia. “Kitchen to the World” is a phrase sometimes used by official promoters of Thailand’s thriving export-oriented food industry. Hyperbole aside, there is much truth to this slogan. The country has been the world’s leading rice shipper for almost 25 [...]

After years of remarkable expansion in the agricultural sector, South America’s largest country is encountering numerous problems that are hindering growth. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse. Its net food trade surplus of U.S.$29 billion in 2005 — the greatest of any country — is sufficient testimony to that. In the past 20 to 30 years [...]