2016-07-15
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In May, the Director for Regional Actions of the Secretaria de Inclusão Social (SECIS) [Secretariat for Social Inclusion] of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações (MCTIC) [Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications], Osório Coelho Guimarães Neto, went on a mission to Europe to seek elements to create the Brazilian Technological Platform for Agroecology, Organic Agriculture and Food Security. This tool is being developed with the sponsorship of the European Union-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Project.
The MCTIC representative visited the Joint Research Centre (JRC), in Ispra, Italy. The JRC is the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, comprised of research and development institutes. He visited the institution that promotes research in areas such as sustainable agriculture, rural development, food and nutritional security, aquaculture, agroecology and organic production. “On that occasion I tried to understand the institute's role in formulating public policies in the context of the European Commission”, he pointed out.
Osório Coelho also visited the JRC unit in Brussels, Belgium, where he participated in meetings to foster new collaboration opportunities between Brazil and the European Union and to discuss how SECIS/MCTIC could participate in the “International Bioeconomy Forum”, which will be held in Brussels. Also in Brussels, he met Eduardo Cuoco, Director of TP Organics, a technological platform and one of the most important names in agroecology in Europe, to discuss the cooperation agreement between the company and SECIS/MCTIC. The last scheduled activity in Belgium was a meeting with Professor Alain Peeters, from the University of Louvain, who shared his successful experience with an experimental farm which employs agroecology principles.
In Almeria, Spain, the Director visited the Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores de Frutas y Hortalizas de Almería (COEXPHAL) [Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers of Almeria], a local university, farmers' cooperatives, and experimental greenhouse research and biological control units. “The city of Almeria has invested in greenhouse technologies, as climate and land conditions are unsuitable for agricultural production, in view of its desert-like characteristics and brackish water. Since the local reality is somewhat similar to the Brazilian semi-arid region, we became interested in visiting the area, with a view to future technical-scientific cooperation”, Osório Coelho explained.
According to the MCTIC representative, the mission was successful, since it “opened the doors to future international collaborations, with an exchange program for researchers, the possibility to transfer technologies and to execute cooperation agreements on agroecology, organic agriculture and food security”.
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