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February 18, 2011
Chamber approves Provisional Presidential Decree that expandsEmbrapa action abroad
Source: http://www2.camara.gov.br/english/chamber-of-deputies-news-
 
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The Plenary has approved on Wednesday Provisional Presidential Decree that allowsthe government to create offices of Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation(Embrapa) abroad to perform its technological development activities. The textremains unchanged and will be sent to SenateThe Plenary has approved on Wednesday, the Provisional Presidential Decree 504/10,that allows the government to create offices of Brazilian Agricultural ResearchCorporation (Embrapa) abroad. With favorable opinion of the rapporteur FernandoCoelho Filho, the Provisional Presidential Decree was approved with no changes andwill be now sent to the Senate.The Executive objective is to give more flexibility to the corporation for the exchangeof technologies, mainly in countries with which Brazil has signed internationalagreements with this purpose.An example is the memorandum of understanding signed with Ghana, in 2006, whichprovided the opening of a regional office of Embrapa in the African country. Due tothe legal impediment from before the Provisional Presidential Decree, the office couldnot be created.External PolicyThe opening of the corporation branches abroad is part of the external policy of cooperation implanted by the government. One of the offices will be EmbrapaAméricas, in Panama, that will have, according to the corporation, the aim of supporting initiatives linked to the development of capacities, to food safety and to theassurance of Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and Andean region export agenda.Embrapa Américas will act in three fronts: research and development platform,technology transfer and technological businesses. The deputy Jonas Donizette hasevaluated that Brazil shall share its technology with poorer countries that, althoughhaving agricultural potential, does not have means to invest in the sector.
“We need to
discover new technologies to food development and cooperate with countries that do
not share the same intelligence, but have the potential to produce”, he argued.
 
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