{"id":22939,"date":"2012-11-12T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=22939"},"modified":"2013-06-09T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T20:08:38","slug":"project-aims-to-transfer-brazilian-know-how-in-support-of-cotton-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/11\/project-aims-to-transfer-brazilian-know-how-in-support-of-cotton-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Aims to Transfer Brazilian Know-How in Support of Cotton Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
South-South cooperation for rural development, stronger agricultural livelihoods.<\/em>Brazil and FAO signed a new South-South cooperation agreement today [17 Oct 2012] worth $20 million that aims to channel Brazilian expertise in cotton production to other developing countries.<\/p>\n

The four year collaborative effort between FAO, the Brazilian Cotton Institute (Instituto Brasile\u00f1o del Algod\u00f3n<\/em>, IBA) and the external cooperation wing of Brazil\u2019s Foreign Relations Ministry (Agencia Brasile\u00f1a de Cooperaci\u00f3n<\/em>, MRE) will target participating countries with technical assistance and training in best practices in cotton cultivation and marketing.<\/p>\n

Experiences, technologies and techniques acquired through the effort will be captured and disseminated to promote further knowledge- and skills transfer.<\/p>\n

The project will initially focus on Haiti and the MERCOSUR zone of South America, with a possible later extension into other developing countries in Latin America and Africa.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s IBA is providing $10 million in financial support; the Brazilian Cooperation Agency is supplying an additional $10 million.<\/p>\n

Beyond financial support, Brazil also has considerable experience in devising new technologies for the cotton production chain, including through cooperative rural development efforts undertaken with other developing-world cotton producers such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali.<\/p>\n

FAO\u2019s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean will contribute $200 000 worth of nonfinancial support, including the provision of expertise and technical information as well as mobilizing its international networks in support of the effort.<\/p>\n

Cotton is fundamental to the economies of many developing nations, particularly in West and Central Africa, where around 10 million small farmers depend on the sector for their income. As a result, the sector occupies a strategic position in the development and poverty-reduction strategies of a number of governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America.<\/p>\n

The promise of South-South collaboration
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\n\u201cThis agreement represents an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of South-South cooperation between developing-world partners as a vehicle for sustainable economic growth,\u201d said FAO Director-General Jos\u00e9 Graziano da Silva at an agreement signing ceremony today at FAO\u2019s Rome headquarters.<\/p>\n

He was joined by the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio de Aguiar Patriota.<\/p>\n

Both the UN\u2019s Millennium Development Goals and the objectives established at the 1996 World Food Summit call for the greater use of South-South regional cooperation initiatives that aim to help farmers to obtain a fair return for their work and which encourage the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.<\/td>\n

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