{"id":55590,"date":"2016-11-04T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/meeting-addressed-agriculture-logistics\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T01:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T03:37:28","slug":"meeting-addressed-agriculture-logistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/meeting-addressed-agriculture-logistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting addressed agriculture, logistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Michel Alaby, the CEO of the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong>, moderated the closing panel of the 4th Brazil Africa Forum, held last Thursday and Friday (4) in Foz do Igua&ccedil;u, Paran&aacute;. The meeting was themed &ldquo;Strategies for the Development of Agriculture in Brazil and Africa.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The final panel, &ldquo;Efficient logistics: Alternatives for Agricultural Development,&rdquo; featured ambassador Tete Antonio, the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations; Luiz Roberto Barcelos, president of the Brazilian Fruit Growers and Exporters Association (Abrafrutas); Nelson Costa, a superintendent at the Federation and Organization of the Cooperatives of the State of Paran&aacute; (Fecoopar); and Ant&oacute;nio Limbau, coordinator of ProSavana, a program of the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. <\/p>\n<p>According to Alaby, the speakers addressed major issues facing Brazil and Africa when it comes to agriculture, as well as investment in human resources, productivity, infrastructure, legal uncertainty, etc. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I went over my own theory, that by 2050 the world will turn to the three &lsquo;As&rsquo;: the Americas, with technology and food production; Africa, with food supplies; and Asia, as a consumer market,&rdquo; said Alaby. In that scenario, Europe loses its prominence in agriculture, and North America retains its relevance, but only as a technology hub. <\/p>\n<p>The executive also mentioned that Arab countries imported USD 96 billion worth of food products in 2015. &ldquo;This is a good time to sell more food or to try and seek agricultural investment in those countries,&rdquo; he asserted. Alaby remarked that Gulf countries are already investing in agriculture and livestock in African nations. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final panel of the 4th Brazil Africa Forum, in the city of Foz do Igua\u00e7u, was moderated by the CEO of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agribusiness"},"wps_subtitle":"The final panel of the 4th Brazil Africa Forum, in the city of Foz do Igua\u00e7u, was moderated by the CEO of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55590","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\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}