Last week Forbes released an article on the report prepared by the UN Secretariat for Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which reinforces publicly the importance of Brazilian agribusiness in the global reduction of climate impacts.
The efficiency of ILPF (crop-livestock-forest integration), precision agriculture and science-based technology were on the spotlight. Those technologies and procedures helped determine Brazil, one of the largest exporters in the world, as “an important player in the global board of impacts of climate changes”.
The report highlights the increase of 386% in productivity in Brazil in a time frame which agricultural area increased only 83%. Those numbers suggest the preservation of about 120 million hectares of forest. The significance for climate impacts is due to positive influence of the removal of CO2 from human emissions in the atmosphere to environmental preservation.
The text indicates that “the key to this was Brazil’s investment in relevant public policies and science-based technology”, evidencing agriculture based on technological innovation, adaptations to climate change and the conservation of natural resources.
Gustavo Mozzer, a researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Agency, Embrapa, elucidates the value of this report in promoting the competence of agribusiness in the country: “This is an important quote for Brazil, because it represents the recognition of the value of agricultural research in the benefit of national development, which gives visibility to the Brazilian agricultural science as a world reference”.
Every scientific and technological efforts exerted in Brazilian agriculture was of paramount importance to contribute to food security, socioeconomic development, increasing productivity and reducing the price of food in the country. With that, the improvements achieved in Brazilian agribusiness contribute not only to internal economic evolution but also to the advancement of world agriculture.
