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Development of agricultural output of Brazil in 2015 US$ since 1961. The agriculture of Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy.As of 2024 the country is the second biggest grain exporter in the world, with 19% of the international market share, and the fourth overall grain producer. [7]
"LAND – GOLD – REFORM The Territorial Restructuring of Guatemala's Highlands", Food First Development Report No 16, September 2007 (also in Portuguese and Spanish in Brazil and Peru) "Campesino a Campesino: Voices from the farmer-to-farmer movement for sustainable agriculture in Latin America", 300 pp., Food First, Oakland (2006).
Agroecology is an applied science that involves the adaptation of ecological concepts to the structure, performance, and management of sustainable agroecosystems. [1] In Latin America, agroecological practices have a long history and vary between regions but share three main approaches or levels: plot scale, farm scale, and food system scale. [2]
Guide Brazil's consumption habits toward a sustainable model. Ecoar Institute: After Rio-92: Provide environmental education as an effort to rescue degraded areas and implement local sustainable development programs and projects. Ecoa: 1989: Create a space for negotiations and decisions about environmental protection and sustainability. Recicloteca
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (Portuguese: Ministério do Meio Ambiente e Mudança do Clima, abbreviated MMA) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The ministry emerged from the Special Secretariat for the Environment within the now-extinct Ministry of the Interior from 1974 to 1985.
Since its inception on April 26, 1973, [1] it has been devoted to developing technologies, knowledge and technical-scientific information aimed at Brazilian agriculture, including livestock. [2] Their mission is to "develop research, development and innovation solutions for the sustainability of agriculture, for the benefit of Brazilian society".
The Bolsa Floresta [a] Program (Programa Bolsa Floresta: PBF) has its origins in the Zona Franca Verde initiatives launched in 2003 by The Amazonas State Secretariat of the Environment and Sustainable Development (SDS) to promote sustainable use of natural resources in order to increase the environmental benefits of the forests. [3]
Brazil's 40-year-old ethanol fuel program is based on the most efficient agricultural technology for sugarcane cultivation in the world, [10] uses modern equipment and cheap sugar cane as feedstock, the residual cane-waste is used to produce heat and power, which results in a very competitive price and also in a high energy balance (output ...