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Water resources management is a key element of Brazil's strategy to promote sustainable growth and a more equitable and inclusive society. Brazil's achievements over the past 70 years have been closely linked to the development of hydraulic infrastructure for hydroelectric power generation and just recently to the development of irrigation infrastructure, especially in the Northeast region.
The Brazilian Ministry of the Environment is the agency in charge of coordinating, supervising and controlling the Brazilian Environmental Policy. It is also responsible for promoting the use of sustainable natural resources and applying sustainable development within the formulation and implementation of national policies. [10]
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
She took her first and master's degrees at McGill University in the economics of agriculture, and a PhD degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech University. [1] In 1996, she began working as a post doctoral fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Brazil. She completed that work in 1998. [2]
Brazil has always been considered a country rich in water. However, Brazil's hydro-climatic regions and irrigation systems vary widely. In the South, frosty conditions in winter have limited irrigation mainly to summer flooding of lowlands for rice production. In the milder Southeast, irrigation in winter has made double-cropping possible.
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.
Their mission is to "develop research, development and innovation solutions for the sustainability of agriculture, for the benefit of Brazilian society". Embrapa's organizational structure is composed of 46 centers that can be divided into Research Units or Service Units, and of 17 Central Units that comprise the corporation's headquarters.
The Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture (Portuguese: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário e Agricultura Familiar, abbreviated MDA) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The MDA was established in 1999 to oversee land reform in Brazil and promote sustainable practices.