Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is on a state visit to China, in Beijing on Tuesday.

The gift of an assortment of six national cheeses, presented by President Lula to Emmanuel Macron in 2024, was a 'crowning achievement' for the country's producers who have fought against prejudices for decades.

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

During Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s visit to Beijing, Chinese companies announced around R$27 billion ($5 billion) in investments in Brazil.

Meituan will invest US$1 billion over five years to start and expand a food delivery service in Brazil, as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes to transform the country’s commodities-reliant economy with help from China.

Chinese electric car maker BYD's new factory in Brazil will be "fully functional" by December 2026, after its operations were delayed because of an investigation into labor abuses, Bahia state labor secretary Augusto Vasconcelos said in a video on Monday.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is to meet Monday with executives from two major Chinese companies. Later in the day, he is to hold an encounter with representatives from the health sector and sign a series of agreements before closing the Brazil-China seminar.

The democracy we learned to live with after World War Two, the functioning of multilateralism as an important role in relations between states, the respect for diversity, the sovereignty of each country is now fading,