Agriculture, a strategic sector for Brazil’s economic growth
by Hiba El Dahr,
Agronomist, Development and International Trade,
Center for Studies and Strategic Foresight, French Ministry of Agriculture
Brazil has progressively emerged as a major agricultural powerhouse during the past few years: A net importer of agricultural products in the 1970s, the country now ranks among the world’s five largest agricultural producers and exporters. While Brazil now serves as a model for many developing countries thanks to this impressive achievement, we invite you to read the analysis issued in March by the Center for Studies and Strategic Foresight (CEP) of the French Ministry of Agriculture, and are publishing here several excerpts of the study1. It serves as a persuasive reminder that the Brazilian “miracle” is first and foremost the result of a dynamic and comprehensive policy to support agriculture, from upstream to downstream. Therefore, the popular imagery of the Brazilian agriculture as liberal, not very interventionist and open to the world cannot withstand a closer scrutiny of its agricultural policy, which discloses numerous intervention channels used by Brazil to support its agricultural activities with the objective to strengthen its position of upcoming global agricultural power. In this context, momagri has expanded the SGPA (Global Support to Agricultural Production)2 indicator, whose results will be available in the coming weeks, to include an analysis of Brazil’s agricultural policy.
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