{"id":197981,"date":"2018-07-23T19:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=197981"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:40:43","slug":"brazil-launches-agro-sustainability-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-launches-agro-sustainability-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil launches agro-sustainability label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil\u2019s Agriculture minister Blairo Maggi announced this Monday (23) the creation of the \u201cBrasil Agro: Food for Nature\u201d label, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalagribusinessforum.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Agribusiness Forum (GAF)<\/a>, which is set to end on Tuesday (24) in S\u00e3o Paulo. According to the Forum\u2019s website, the label is intended as a certificate of sustainability for Brazilian agricultural products sold internationally.<\/p>\n<p>The first items bearing the label are expected to hit the market in October. A bar code will provide buyers with information on product sources and traceability.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also said Brazil\u2019s grain output will be up 30% in the next ten years. The 2027\/2028 crop could reach 302 million tons. Meat production could increase by 27% to 35 million tons.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said grain exports could reach 139 million tons in ten years, up from a current 102 million tons per year. Foreign sales of meats are expected to climb from 6.5 million to 8.8 million. \u201cBy 2027\/28, we want Brazil to retain 10% of the world\u2019s agricultural market,\u201d the GAF website quoted Maggi as saying.<\/p>\n<p>During the Forum, PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant Paula Malvestio said global demand for food will increase by 70% through 2050, especially in major emerging economies like China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-197979\">Reproduction\/Instagram<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new certification was announced by Agriculture minister Blairo Maggi at the Global Agribusiness Forum in S\u00e3o Paulo. He said grain production will increase by 30% over a ten-year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":197979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,103],"tags":[238,237,173,2672,16,3978,3976,3979,3980,396,2929,1983,3977,33307],"class_list":{"0":"post-197981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"category-sustainability","9":"tag-agribusiness","10":"tag-agriculture","11":"tag-blairo-maggi","12":"tag-crop","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-gaf","15":"tag-global-agribusiness-forum","16":"tag-grain","17":"tag-likestock-and-supply","18":"tag-livestock","19":"tag-meats","20":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture","21":"tag-pricewaterhouse-coopers","22":"tag-safra-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"The new certification was announced by Agriculture minister Blairo Maggi at the Global Agribusiness Forum in S\u00e3o Paulo. He said grain production will increase by 30% over a ten-year period. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}