Agriculture Innovation and Social Inclusion

Beatriz da Silveira Pinheiro

The 2010 Global Hunger Index Release - Des Moines, October 2010

Eradicating Extreme Poverty and Hunger(Social policies, inflation control, economic growth)

Bolsa Família Program – PBF

• Cash transfer to families living in poverty (monthly per capita income of R$ 70 - R$ 140) and in extreme poverty (monthly per capita income of up to R$ 70).

• Part of the Zero Hunger strategy.

• From 2004 to 2009, the Program doubled the number of families covered by it, from 6.6 million to 12.4 million families altogether.

• December 2009: 49 million people covered.

Decline in Child Mortality

• Improvements in income distribution, poverty reduction, and schooling of mothers;

• Changes in fertility patterns, with a significant reduction in the average number of children per woman;

• Health policies implemented by the Unified Health System –SUS, with emphasis on the health of women and children.

Harvested Area Growth: 27% = 1.3% / year

Production Growth:

145% = 4.8% / year

Source: CONAB.

*Estimate: October/ 2009

Brazilian Agriculture – Grains (1991-2010*)

Source: ABIEC, ABEF, UBA and ABIPECS

Beef: +73 % (94-08)

Pork: + 128% (94-08)

Broiler: + 212% (94-08)

Brazilian Agriculture – Meat (1994-2008)

Martha Jr., data from Dieese (2010)

Food Basket Real Prices, Jan/1975-Apr/2010

2005

Fonte: MAPA

Innovation in Tropical Agriculture: Soybean Adapted to the Brazilian Savanah

1975

19601960

1975

2005

Source: National Company of Food Supply, 2008

Agriculture innovation and smallhorder farmer

Biofortification: breeding micronutrient-rich varieties and post-harvest processing, for the main food staples in Brazil: cassava, sweet potato,

rice, common beans, maize, wheat and cowpea.

Agriculture innovation and nutritional value of crops

Ecological and economic zoning

Ecological and economic zoning

Best practices, integrated pest management,

biological inputs .

Best practices, integrated pest management,

biological inputs .

No-tillage, Integration of crop, livestock and forest systems.

No-tillage, Integration of crop, livestock and forest systems.

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Ulisses Silva

J.A. araújo Filho

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Agriculture innovation and sustainability

Innovation in Agriculture: Economic and Social Impacts

-Inward development - Increased Human

Development Index

- Higher income, education, health, and jobs

- Stable food supply

- Lower basic food prices-Increased agricultural exports

- trade surpluses,

- diminished financial vulnerability

Novaes, P., unpublished.

Agriculture Innovation

Social InclusionSocial Inclusion

Nutrition and HealthNutrition and Health Sustainability Sustainability

ProductivityProductivity