Brazil

We have been in Brazil for 8 days now and have seen coffee, sugar, soy, corn, beef, ethonol, anddairy (my highlight) Brazil is rather impressive. There is no doubt potential here and it WILL play a major part in feeding the world in the next number of years. There is not alot that will hold it back. If you take into account the capacity of todays world to change Brazil will become wealthy quickly form agriculutre and infrastructue and techniques such as breeding will rabily be adopted. the cultural shift of the people to drive this rapidly might be the biiggest hurdle. there is almost a go slow attitude of the staff in places like food shops etc. But I dont see this really holding back the ability of Brazil. 
Brazil itself reminds me of Australia in many ways and Thiland in others.