Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
07/16/2013
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Akemi Nitahara
Agency reporter Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - A group of 25 scientists from around the world will have two years to do research and report on concrete experiences that balance the sustainable agricultural production to ensure food security worldwide. The initiative, launched today (12) in Rio, aims to unite researchers, governments and companies around the common good. According to Emile Frison, Director General of Bioversity International, a research organization nonprofit based in Rome, who leads the project, the novelty of Agriculture and Conservation Initiative is the union between researchers and sustainability of the productive sectors to seek solutions integrated.
"The next step is to actually scientists work together. We have such a high-level organization that can provide important political back. But we need these scientists build scientific evidence. They should try to gather everything we know about initiatives that work for different paradigms of agriculture, "he said.
The President of the Brazilian Foundation for Sustainable Development (FBDS), Israel Klabin, who attended the event, said that Brazil has leading role in this area because the country "is the world capital of natural capital", with all the natural resources in greater fullness and has worked with realism in question. To Klabin, it is important that the productive sector do not leave aside the environmental issue and walk to a sustainable economy.
"We are living in a time of crisis in all sectors of the planet. Actually production systems are going relatively well, but the inclusion of them in the planetary reality and the overuse of natural capital, causes us to seek a tune between production and the environment, what is involved here is exactly as is that we can continue to produce while respecting the limits that nature offers us, so we can make the natural resources inherited from the past can be passed to our children the same way we receive. "
The president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Maurício Lopes, said that Brazil has advanced a lot in this area over the past 40 years, with the creation of research institutions and legislation. According to him, the country has overcome the problem of food insecurity and became an importer to food provider, has transformed large areas of acid soil in fertile, developed the concept of tropical agriculture and built a platform of sustainable practices.
"We have today more than 30 million hectares of tillage, which no longer turns the soil, which helps to solve the problems of erosion of soil erosion, loss of nutrients. Brazil is a leader in biological nitrogen fixation, all Brazilian soy is grown without the use of nitrogen in chemical form. And we are now promoting another great revolution in Brazilian agriculture, which is the integration of systems: crop-livestock, crop-livestock-forest, all combined, that will allow us one vertical growth of Brazilian production, "he said.
Source: Agency Brazil
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