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Embrapa & Brazilian Agriculture

Experiences

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Past / Present / Future

Embrapa & Public-Private Partnerships

An overview

Embrapa International Presence

Reasons & Strategy

Embrapa and Brazilian Agriculture

Brazilian agriculture: before 1970's

Low Ag production and low yields

Production concentrated in South/Southeast

Food supply crisis

Rural poverty

Lack of specific knowledge on Tropical Agriculture

Institutional void (ag research, education, markets,

media and governmental agencies, etc.)

THE TASK: TO MOVE FROM TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE TO

AGRICULTURE BASED ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.

•Established in 1973

•Linked to the Ministry of Agriculture,

Livestock and Supply

•Employees – 8,400

•Total Scientists – 2,210

•Scientist with PhDs – 1,650

• Annual Budget - US$ 650 million

Embrapa’s General Information

Embrapa - the model

HUMAN RESOURCE CAPACITY BUILDING:

Strong training program in centres of excellence

around the world.

FOCUSED RESEARCH MODEL: Concentrated on

products and areas of fundamental importance for

the development of the country.

Institutional building

Embrapa: building research capability

1974 - 2007

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• 39 Research Centers ( 3 News in 2010 )= 42

- 10 National Thematic Centers

- 15 National Product (Commodity) Centers

- 14 Ecorregional /Agroforestry Centers

•2 Special Services- Technology Transfer,

Technologycal and Scientific Information.

Embrapa Network

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Brazilian biomes

AC

RJ

SC

100 Mha (12%)

Atlantic Forest

Carlos Nabinger

4 Mha (0,5%)

Pampa

Cerrado

207 Mha (24%)

90 Mha (11%)

CaatingaRevista Geográfica Universal -agosto 82

Amazon

437 Mha (51 %)

G.Ziesler

Pantanal

13 Mha (1,5%)

Sandra Santos, Embrapa Pantanal

EMBRAPA’S NETWORK

39 Research Centers

2 Labs Abroad

1 T T Office in Accra-Gana

Tropical plants and animals:

soybean (photoperiodism)

tropical and adapted-temperate fruits

zebu cattle, poultry, etc.

Fibers and wood (cotton, Eucalyptus)

N fixation- soybean, corn, sugarcane

Biological control

No-tillage practices

Sugarcane and ethanol

Sandra Santos, Embrapa Pantanal

Archives, Mapa

Paulo Kurtz, Embrapa Wheat

Tropical knowledge conquest

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Viabilization of agriculture in the Cerrado

1960

1975

2005

Evolution and expansion of soybean in Brazil

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Actions of great social impact

Family agriculture

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Agricultural research impacts

SOCIAL BALANCE - 2006

Every R$ 1.00*= R$ 13.20

for Brazilian society

Social surplus: US$ 7.9 billion

Embrapa technologies:

112,504 new jobs

582 relevant social actions

Social balance (10 years) : US$ 49.7 billion

* US$ 1.00 = R$ 1.77

Paulo Kurtz

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Sugar

Orange Juice

Coffee

Soybeans

Beef

Broiler

Corn

Fruits

1st

1st

1st

2nd

2nd

2nd

3rd

3rd

1st

1st

1st

1st

1st

1st

4th

-

Production ExportProduct

Source: MAPA.

Brazil World Food Ranking

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Brazil – Evolution of Production and Harvested Areacrop 1990/91 to 2007/08

47.446.247.949.143.9

37.836.936.638.535.637.9

68.3

81.1 78.482.4

100.3

143.9

122.5

131.7

114.7

123.2

57.9

91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08

Harvested Area (millions of ha)

Growth: 25.1% = 1.3% by year

Production (millions of tons)

Growth: 148.5% = 5.5% by

year

Source: CONAB.

Position:

September/2008

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Meat Production

Source: ABIEC, ABEF and ABIPECS * Estimate

9,2008,950

5,200

10,247

9,530

3,411

3,0262,870

1,330

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

6,000

7,000

8,000

9,000

10,000

11,000

12,000

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007*

Beef: +76,9 % (94-

07)

Pork: + 127,5%

(94-07)

Broiler: + 200,4%

(94-07)

thousand

tons

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35.2

27.5

0

4

8

12

16

20

24

28

32

36

40

71/72 74/75 77/78 80/81 83/84 86/87 89/90 92/93 95/96 98/99 01/02 04/05 07/08*

Sugar and Alcohol Production

* Estimate (1st Sugar Cane Harvest Survey:

April/08)

SUGAR

Growth (02-08): 85.3% and 10.8%

by year

ALCOHOL

Growth (02-08): 139.8% and 15.7%

by year

million of

tons

Sources: SPAE / MAPA and CONAB /

MAPA

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hydraulic and

electricity

15%

uraniun

2%

natural gas

8% coal

7%

biomass

29%oil and oil

products

39%

BRAZILIAN ENERGY MIX

Source: MME/BEN (2005)

World: biomass 11%; hydraulic and electricity 2%

Embrapa Agenda for the Future

Food Supply for Brazil and for Export!

BioEnergy (ethanol, biodiesel): Embrapa AgriEnergy

Sustainable utilization of altered areas

Ex: drought and disease tolerant cultivars

Rain Forest sustainable use

Crop-livestock-forest integration

North-South-South dialogue: Embrapa Africa

Public-private partnerships

Tropical Agriculture: challenges for the future

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RD&I Plan:

AgriEnergy

Ethanol

Image: Inor/Ag. Assmann

Residues & By-products

of Agri-industries

and Forests

Energetic

Forests

Biodiesel

Starting point

Actions of great sustainability impacts

• AgriEnergy Plan

• Ethanol Production Plan

• Sugar Cane Agri-economic-

ecological Zoning

AgriEnergy Policies:

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Biotechnology &

Biosecurity

Frontiers of knowledge

Satellite Monitoring:RD&I: Geoinformation for Agribusiness, Environment and

National Security

Nanotechnology - AgriNational Laboratory

Embrapa & Brazilian universities network

Nanotechnology

Experiences

Embrapa & Public-Private Partnerships

1. Financing R&D with profits of a private technology – Ex .

Monsanto ( US$ 1 M / year);

2. Joint R &D for specific needs – Ex. Paper industry on

genetics of Eucalyptus ;

3. Partnership on cultivar development- Soybean (

Foundations), corn (F), sorghun (F) , vegetables, tropical

fruits;

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4. Licencing technology from third parties to

develop new products- Genes, Semiochemical;

5. Licencing Embrapa’s technologies to the

Private Sector- cultivars, lines, patents,

microorganisms,etc;

6. Co- hybrids production - oil palm, melon;

7. Technological support to Rural Development

Projects implemented by the PS (Venezuela,

África);

8. Joint R&D for new products – two or more

technologies into the same product;

9. Technology Transfer on crop-livestock-

forestry Integration . Ex. Bunge.

Embrapa International Presence

Reasons & Strategy

• External Policy

o Knowledge Exchange

o Knowledge Transfer

Equator

Trop. Capricorn

30o S

Trop. Cancer30o N

Input C&T

Output C&T

Labex USALabex Europe

Embrapa Africa

Tropical Agriculture: a fine case of international cooperation

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• Bilateral Agreements: 68

• Countries: 37

• Institutions: 64

• Multilateral Agreements: 20 Int. Org.

International Cooperation at Embrapa

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LABEX USA - USDA-ARS• genetic resources, food safety and nanotechnology.

LABEX EUROPE - Agropolis• Montepellier, France - agribusiness economy,

natural resources and food technology; • Wageningen, Netherlands - advanced biology;

•Rothanstead, England - plant/insect relationship

LABEX COREA (ASIA)• genetic resources, livestock production

Labex

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Major objectives:

• Technology transfer for:

•Agricultural and social-economics

development

•Environmental sustainability

•Food, fiber and energy security

Embrapa África

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Long term projects

• Mali/Regional - Support to development of the Cotton-Four Countries

• Angola - Strengthening the National Research Institute

• Angola - Two projects supporting private companies in the

development of major investments in commercial farming

• Mozambique - Strengthening the National Research Institute, project

developed in partnership with USAID

•Mozambique – ProSavana – A regional development project, based on

ProCerrado. The project is a partnership between ABC and JICA, with

Embrapa being responsible for the technology component

• Senegal – Support for the development of the rice industry

Embrapa África

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Past / Present / Future

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

1. Embrapa´s first major institutional

experience in supporting a sister institution

outside Brazil was in 1987, when a group of 6

researchers stayed in CENTA / El Salvador, for

periods of 6 to 12 months.

Financial support was provided by a IDB

Project

2. Several researchers f rom Embrapa have

visited and supported sister institutions with

consulting, training, exchange of genetic material,

seminars

3. Several researchers /technical personel from the

region have trained at Embrapa´s centers.

Past

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

1. Embrapa´s first experience in supporting and managing

a research project including a experiment station outside

Brazil is in Haiti.

The project, financed by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency –

ABC, entails the creation of a Unit for the Validation and

Demonstration of Agricultural Technology in a farm

belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture in Fond-des-Nègres,

Departament of Nippes. IICA is involved in providing

operational support.

2. With TCPs financed by ABC/MRE, Embrapa has vastly

increased the number of researchers who are visiting and

supporting sister institutions with t raining, exchange of

genetic material, seminars.

TCPs have also helped to expand the number of researchers

from the region who have trained at Embrapa´s centers.

Present

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Embrapa´s proposal for the future have been

framed by increased demand for TCPs and training.

This led to the following actions :

• 1. Installation of a permanent physical presence in

the region –

Embrapa Americas in Panama

• 2. Creation of an International Tropical

Agriculture Training Center in Brasilia- 2010

The Future

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Embrapa Americas

• Installation of a regional office in Panama to

support our work in Mexico, Central America, The

Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

• Deployment of two staff members – One to

coordinate R&D and training related matters and

the other technology transfer and business

The Future (2)

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Embrapa Americas – Pilars• R& D Platforms - development of specific regional projects

with countries of the region and international institutions.

Countries / institutions participating in the project will

develop it together and will select the regional institution that

could be the headquarter for that project.

•Transfer of Technology projects - this is the predominant

type of project existing today. It will continue, but we expect

that some of this projects could be transformed in projects in

the R&D Platform.

• Business - promising areas are related to seed sales and

licensing, other genetic material and support to private

companies operating in the region. An example is our support

to Odebrech Corporation in Venezuela.

The Future (3)

Embrapa in Central America & The Caribbean

Embrapa Americas – Implementation phases

• November 2009 - Technical Mission to Panama .

• November / December 2009 - selection of researchers to

be deployed in Panama.

• December 2009 to February 2010 - internal and

external travel s to develop initial projects and workplan s

involving NARs , Embrapa and donors.

• March 2010 – installation workshop in Panama.

The Future (4)

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Thank you!

Amauri.Buso@embrapa.br