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...“Agro is already being impacted by climate change,” says Paula Packer, head of environment at Embrapa, an agricultural research and development agency widely credited with laying the foundations for Brazil...
...A recent research paper prescribed the festive ingredients in rather academic terms: “a speech by a manager, and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to enhance happiness”....
...In the food and beverage sector, where companies rely almost entirely on naturally produced ingredients, one of the biggest dependency risks is soil degradation....
...Also, chicken fricassee and Dr Brown’s Cel-Ray soda, a beverage I refused to taste. I never went there with friends. It was where kin congregated. That world ended violently....
...Subsidiary Suntory Beverage & Food GB and Ireland (SBF GB&I), which produces the soft drinks Ribena and Lucozade, also offered “flexi Fridays”....
...Before, “you had to eat what you planted or hunted . . . now people don’t move except to go to the supermarket”, says Jerusa de Paula Freitas Brandão, the municipal nutritionist for Careiro da Várzea....
...However, after a string of complaints, Paula and the rest of Brazil’s McDonald’s employees now have the option of eating a typical Brazilian meal of rice, beans and beef in their breaks instead....
...“This is usually the time of the year where the crop has mostly been sold and there is almost no stock left,” says Paula Savanti, analyst at Rabobank in Buenos Aires....
...Paula Savanti, analyst at Rabobank in Buenos Aires, says farmers had sold almost a third of their soyabean harvest by this time last year, but sales this year are just half that level....
...Last week, Paula Deen, the chef, acknowledged she had type 2 diabetes as Novo Nordisk, the drug manufacturer, hired her to be its new spokesman....
...“Passing the new legislation as soon as possible is key given the wave of Brazil’s M&A activity,” said Ana Paula Martinez, a lawyer with Levy & Salomão Advogados in São Paulo....
...Ana Paula Pedroni, analyst at Mexico’s Ixe financial group, said: “This is a move that has been rumoured for months, and it represents major progress for Bimbo’s aim of achieving organic growth in the medium...
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