GCC-Brazil strategic ties growing but lack formality

Brazil has quietly emerged as one of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s most strategic non-Arab partners as the Gulf states move to turn food security from a policy objective into a long-term investment strategy. Brazil already accounts for more than 70 percent of the GCC’s agricultural imports from Latin America, giving it an outsized role in the Gulf’s food supply chain. But the relationship is beginning to move well beyond the traditional logic of trade. As Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and other Gulf capita