Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

a) Achieving sustainability of the energy matrix, developing
environmentally appropriate technologies that ensure long-term livelihoods to
farmers and farm workers participating in agroenergy projects, with profitability
rates that ensure competitiveness in the energy market, and helping fulfill the
country's commitments in international arenas.
b) Accomplishing energy self-sufficiency and sustainability at the
community level, herein understood as the development of sustainable
technologies that enable isolated communities, individual farmers, farmer
cooperatives or associations, and land reform settlements to generate energy
to meet their needs independent from external commercial sources.
c) Generating jobs and income, a way to add momentum to the
development of the hinterlands, reduce regional disparities and help fix rural
populations in their habit, particularly by adding value to the production chain
and integrating the various dimensions of agribusiness.
d) Enhancing the use of areas affected by anthropic action, maximizing
the sustainability of production systems, discouraging unjustified expansions
of the agricultural frontier and preventing encroachment upon sensitive or
protected systems.
e) Achieving and maintaining leadership in the international bioenergy
market.
f) Supporting the design of Brazilian public policies and providing input
to Brazilian officials in international negotiations involving topics such as
energy, the environment and global climate changes.
g) Attaining sustainability, competitiveness and the rational use of energy
in the national agribusiness chains and maximizing the use of the production
factors.
h) Eliminating health risks to agribusiness through the formulation of
solutions that integrate agroenergy generation.
Strategy and program proposal
The strategy of the program calls for:
Integrating efforts, valuing Brazilian talents and skills, taking
advantage of strategic associations with international scientists and
keeping all actions focused on the development of the agroenergy
production chains.
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