Madame Chair,
Distinguished delegates,
Brazil has expanded its international cooperation in biofuels, within the
framework of sustainable development and food security.
In this context, the Brazilian government opened an office in Ghana for Empresa
Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa) to promote cooperation
agriculture and food security. There, Embrapa researchers share technological
knowledge and provide assistance on food production to interested countries in Africa.
The aim is to assist and foster social development and economic growth through
technology transfer and sharing of knowledge and experience in the field of agricultural
research. Emphasis is placed on development of agricultural production and
use of technologies that lead to economic growth, preservation and
development of environmental quality, reduction of social inequalities and the
inclusion of African producers in the global market.
Implemented projects focused on the training for the production and / or processing of
cassava, cashew nuts, biofuels, conservation agriculture and biotechnology. It should
also be mentioned in this same framework the implementation of a long-term project in
the experimental field of Sotuba, in Mali. Brazil also maintains in Africa trilateral
technical cooperation involving the European Union, which guarantees funding
and markets for African biofuels.
Embrapa is now opening a similar research center in Angola. In 2010, this model of
cooperation was also inaugurated in South Korea for the Asia region, and briefly
will open an office in Panama, to help countries in Central America.
At the international level, Brazil is cooperating in the "Global Bioenergy Partnership?, in
areas such as the quantification of emissions of GHG and sustainability of bioenergy.
In addition, this Partnership established a methodological framework that facilitates the
transparent comparison of different life-cycle analysis of biofuels. Brazil, China,
South Africa, the United States and the European Union cooperate in the
framework of the International Biofuels Forum to harmonize international technical
standards to convert biofuels into commodities.
Together with the United States, Brazil has also extended technical cooperation in
biofuels to several countries in Central America and Caribbean, including
Guatemala, El Salvador, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, who receive technical
cooperation from Brazil and have access grated to the U.S. market.
