Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: A Conversation on Best Practices with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Tereza Cristina
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Overview
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Brazil is a well-known agricultural powerhouse and a key participant in strategies to ensure global food security in the coming decades. Yet given the substantial environmental challenges facing the world, partnerships and cooperation are necessary in order to increase food production in a sustainable and efficient way.
According to Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, the way forward is to intensify the development of the Brazilian tropical agriculture sector as a strategic, low-carbon emissions supplier of food, fiber, and fuel.
On Tuesday, November 19, Minister Tereza Cristina will address Brazil’s central role in developing the future of sustainable agriculture at the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute. Her remarks will be followed by a panel discussion on creating a strategic sustainability agenda, through coordination with private sector companies and multilateral organizations, with a focus on best practices and new technologies for tropical agriculture.
AGENDA
Welcome Remarks
Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute
Keynote
Minister Tereza Cristina, Brazil's Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply
Panel: Creating a Strategic Agenda in Sustainable Agriculture with Private Sector Companies and Multilateral Organizations
Juliano Assunção, Director, Climate Policy Initiative - CPI
Martien Van Nieunwkoop, Global Director of Agriculture, World Bank
Paulo Herrmann, President, John Deere Brazil
Fernando Camargo, Secretary of Innovation, Rural Development and Irrigation, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture
Eduardo Sampaio, Secretary of Agricultural Policies, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture
Marcos Jank, Senior Professor of Global Agribusiness, Insper
João Adrien, Special Advisor on Sustainability, Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (Moderator)
Documents & Downloads
- Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: A Conversation on Best Practices with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Tereza CristinaDownload
- Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: A Conversation on Best Practices with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Tereza CristinaDownload
- Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: A Conversation on Best Practices with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Tereza CristinaDownload
- Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics: A Conversation on Best Practices with Brazil’s Minister of Agriculture Tereza CristinaDownload
Keynote Speaker
Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias
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The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and US institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities. Read more
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