The trendy 'superfood' is reshaping the world's biggest rainforest - for better and worse View of acai berres on display at the Acai Market on the shores of the Guajara Bay in Belem, Para state, ...

Acai berry production has grown around 50% in the past decade, driven by a dozen or so women in the tiny community of Ilha da Jussara, at the northern tip of the Brazilian Amazon. In the tiny ...

BELEM, BRAZIL — A frenzy overtakes the teeming harbor here as a wooden-hulled riverboat chugs into port. “It’s here!” cries an expectant buyer, one of many shoving his way toward the craft in a sweaty ...

The dark purple berry enjoyed promotion as a sustainable “bioeconomy” product at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil’s Amazonian port of Belém, where it was ubiquitous. Proponents say the native fruit ...

The first time I ever tried acai (pronounced: ah-sah-yee) in 1997, the fruit was served to me as a thick drink by an Ipixuna Indian woman, when I was living on the Amazon River for a month. Acai, ...

Bowls and smoothies made of the Amazon berry açaí have become ubiquitous in many cities across the United States, but consumers may think twice about shelling out after August 1 when a 50 percent ...

Under the oppressive heat of the Amazon summer, Brazilian Jose Diogo climbs a palm tree nimbly and cuts a cluster of black fruits: the açaí harvest is beginning, the livelihood of his community ...

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Working in the sweltering heat of the Brazilian Amazon, Jose Diogo scales a tree and harvests a cluster of black berries: acai, the trendy “superfood” reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest — for ...

US Lovers of Amazon Berry Açaí to Feel Tariff Pinch By Marcelo Teixeira and Oliver Griffin NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bowls and smoothies made of the Amazon berry açaí have become ubiquitous in many cities ...