Brazilian scientist transforms farming (youtube.com)
Brazil is a top soybean producer, and China it's biggest customer for that crop. Ukraine war has cut off the ability of Brazil to purchase the fertilizers it used, so it has found an alternative, a forumula that is not an imported petrol based nitrogen fertilizer (which the use of has dropped to basically zero).
$25b less was spent on imported fertilizers in 2025 (by Brazilian farmers). 230m tons of CO2.
Yields increased 15-20%, said an interviewee.
She won the World Food Prize. One of Time's 100 most influencial people. After 40 years of research. #Science
Her solution focuses on nitrogen, delivering it from the atmosphere to the plant. They find microorganisms and then improve the use of these to the crops.