{"id":372598,"date":"2024-08-21T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=372598"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:03:02","slug":"brazilian-agency-to-train-technicians-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-agency-to-train-technicians-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian agency to train technicians from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Embrapa<\/a>, Brazil’s agricultural research agency, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) are preparing a cooperation agreement to be established by the end of the year, which would facilitate the training of technicians from African countries at the Brazilian state-owned corporation\u2019s units. The letter of intent between the two institutions has already been signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The resources, initially set at USD 100,000, will come from the Jos\u00e9 Irineu Cabral Fund, named after Embrapa’s first president. The fund was established by the IICA for cooperation purposes. The money will be used to provide scholarships for three to six months to 30 technicians involved in rural extension, transfer, or research. They will be able to acquire knowledge and multiply the training in their own countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IICA Director-General Manuel Otero hopes that Embrapa\u2019s training will help address \u201cthe serious problem of soil degradation in Africa\u201d by using strategies that can be applied to the African savanna. \u201cWhich Brazil has achieved in the development of the Cerrado areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cooperation could increase food production in crops that are also part of the traditional diet of African countries, such as cassava, yam, rice, and beans and other legumes, as well as vegetables, fruits, seed production, and inputs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Marcelo Morandi, Head of the International Relations Office at Embrapa, the cooperation could extend to ethanol production. \u201cIn many regions there, energy security is also a crucial factor for human development and even for creating opportunities, so that there are other activities, including food production,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil’s soft power<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe most relevant aspect of this partnership is demonstrating the importance of agricultural science in Brazil in terms of tropical agriculture, sustainability, and development. Brazil has become a reference, and Embrapa is the icon of that reference. We have this very important soft power: a creator of solutions that can be adapted for various countries that need to develop food production,\u201d says Morandi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is still no detailed schedule for the selection and recruitment of scholarship recipients, nor has it been decided which of Embrapa\u2019s 43 units will conduct the training. The countries from which the scholars will come have also not been determined \u2013 Africa has 54 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:
Embrapa president wants more technology in farming<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Embrapa, Brazil’s agricultural research agency, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) will sign a cooperation by the end of the year to bring 30 technicians from African countries for training at Embrapa facilities. The schedule and countries have not yet been defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":372597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[49688,50631,9534,2214,28755,50632],"class_list":{"0":"post-372598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-africa-3","9":"tag-agricultural-training","10":"tag-brazil-en","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-embrapa-en-2","13":"tag-iica-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Embrapa, Brazil's agricultural research agency, and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) will sign a cooperation by the end of the year to bring 30 technicians from African countries for training at Embrapa facilities. The schedule and countries have not yet been defined.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372598","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}