Beyond food

Access to food and water, opportunities to generate income, being socially included and living in a healthy and peaceful environment are conditions that give people dignity and quality of life. However, the growth of the world's population and limited natural resources pose challenges for nations in guaranteeing fundamental rights such as these. In this scenario, Brazil must take a leading role in providing sustainable food.

Few places in the world combine climate conditions, land availability and an entrepreneurial agricultural sector, which make it possible to further increase food production, like our country. And, best of all, there is no need to increase the planting area. In addition to exporting agricultural products to more than 150 countries, we have already influenced the diets of many nations. For example, for every ten steaks exported in the world, three come from Brazil, not counting glasses of orange juice, chicken meat, etc.

It is important to highlight that our agriculture is considered the most sustainable on the planet, and Brazil must consolidate its reputation as a major food producer within the standards and concepts of sustainability. It is possible to transform this vocation into an international symbol, as a brand of a country that has technology, innovates, produces with quality, and is capable of meeting the demands of the most demanding markets with competence and competitiveness.

Brazil has adhered to international integrative agendas, such as the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. With 169 goals to be achieved by 2030, the SDGs propose global actions to eradicate poverty, food security, agriculture, health, education, gender equality, reduce inequalities, energy, water and sanitation, sustainable production and consumption patterns, climate change, among others.

Agriculture, as a generator of food, health, income, environmental services and, why not say, peace, works in harmony with the SDGs. Connected to these objectives, a series of global and national signals and trends were captured by Embrapa's Strategic Intelligence System, Agropensa, which coordinated a study and synthesized seven megatrends for Brazilian agriculture in the 2030 horizon, one of which shows that the Sustainable productive intensification is the emphasis to be given to the production of food, fiber and agroenergy.

Brazil's agricultural revolution was supported by science, technology and tropical innovation. We move from the green revolution to integrated systems, and we will migrate to bio-based agriculture. We stopped importing food, started supplying part of the world and are influencing consumption habits. But, beyond food, nutrients, daily bread, and peace, we are contributing new parameters of humanity.