Promises and Pressure: Brazil’s Late Push to Ease Fertilizer Dependence on Russia

Promises and Pressure: Brazil’s Late Push to Ease Fertilizer Dependence on Russia

Brazil now claims it wants to reduce its 85% dependency on imported fertilizer by building four new factories that will, by official projections, cover just 35% of national urea demand. Government officials, led by Petrobras and the Ministry of Development, framed this move as strategic, but the timing tells a less heroic story. For years, […]