Mauro Mendes, governor of the agricultural state of Mato Grosso in central-western Brazil, is in the U.S. to promote investments aimed at expanding the agribusiness sector while minimizing environmental degradation — despite the fact that the local Mato Grosso vegetation has already been drastically altered in recent decades.
Mr. Mendes attended the Brazil Summit in New York City, an event hosted by the Financial Times and of which The...