Embrapa's Master Plan 2024-2030

Embrapa's Master Plan 2024-2030

• The Master Plan 2024-2030 is an institutional publication by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa).
• The plan is published by the Superintendence of Strategy and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
• The areas covered in the plan include external environment, operations and relationships, and strategic choices.

Introduction by Sílvia Massruhá, President of Embrapa

• Embrapa was created in 1973 when most food production occurred in temperate climates.
• In 50 years, Brazil emerged as a major global food producer, diversifying its agricultural products.
• Embrapa played a key role in this transformation alongside universities and state research and extension agencies.
• Embrapa has been committed to Brazilian society, anticipating future trends, and guiding its path with strategy and planning.
• The Plano Diretor da Embrapa 2024-2030 outlines how the company will fulfill its institutional mission.
• Embrapa's goal is to build the future collaboratively with producers, technicians, companies, universities, government bodies, public institutions, civil society, startups, and third-sector entities.
• The intent is to serve Brazilians and humanity inclusively.

Summary of Topics

• The document contains the following topics:
• External context
• Overview of Brazilian agriculture
• Major global transitions: opportunities and challenges
• Operations and relationship with stakeholders and innovation ecosystems
• Mission, vision, and values
• Strategic objectives
• Strategy map
• Glossary
• References

Context

• The world is undergoing significant transformations across all economic and societal sectors.
• Complex challenges, including climate crisis, COVID-19 recovery, and geopolitical conflicts, significantly affect agri-food systems and Brazilian agriculture, presenting both challenges and opportunities.
• The Plano Plurianual (PPA) 2024-2027 emphasizes the strengthening of sustainable agriculture with value addition, under three programs managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
• The new Growth Acceleration Program (Novo PAC) includes investments in modernizing Embrapa's infrastructure.

Brazilian Agriculture Today

• Brazilian agriculture is highly competitive, creating jobs, wealth, food, fiber, and bioenergy for Brazil and other countries.
• The agribusiness sector significantly contributes to the national GDP, accounting for 24.4% of total wealth produced and 50% of the country's export revenue.
• From 1975 to 2023, grain production increased by 624%, meat production increased by 933%, and fruit production increased by 199%.
• The forestry sector increased its wood production by 177% between 1986 and 2022, while coffee production increased by 68% in the last 40 years.
• Milk production grew 4.4 times between 1975 and 2022, and productivity increased 3.4 times.
• The value of gross production for 2023 is estimated at approximately R$ 1.15 trillion, an increase of about 2.7% compared to 2022.
• Grain production is projected at over 307 million tons in 2032, an increase of about 48 million tons over current production.

Main Drivers of the Sector

• Key factors for future performance include:
• Availability and distribution of resources
• Policies to incentivize the sector
• Entrepreneurial producers
• Tropical technology
• The 2017 Census revealed that 1.7 million women are in management roles in rural properties, approximately 34% of total establishments.

Global Transition

• The increase in global temperature requires carbon neutrality and reduction in greenhouse gases to limit climate change effects which will be achieved through the collective effort, involving the private sector towards changing production processes with research, technology and investments.
• Agriculture plays a key role in supporting climate change adaptation and decarbonization commitment and requires consistent investments
• Consistent data and indicators are important for the advancements of the ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) agenda in companies and organizations.

Metrics and Indicators

• Data generation is growing in agriculture
• Important to organize data and info, as well as to creates metrics that consider environmental, social, and economic aspects to maintain and open markets for Brazilian products.
• Metgodologies for montoring the reduction of GEE in agricultural, as well as certification for sustainability is needed.

Competitiveness and Environmental Laws

• Investment in science, technology, and innovation is essential because adaptation and resilience to climate, reduce emissions, and high traceability of process and products.
• National Fuel Policy (Renovabio) aims to promote the decarbonization of production systems and generating additional income for producers
• Brazil updated Paris agreement and estimates than investment in research will be strategic for support the challenge.

Agenda of Public Health

• Environmental organizations, and national and international attention to deforestation and illegal burnings requests that there is a need for Actions of articulations and communications.
• To ensure the preservation of national resource and prevent future agricultural exports.
• National health encompass the conception, elaboration, development, and implementation of integrates efficient public policies, and prevents the spread of diseases.

Transition of Food System

• The sector needs to discuss actions related to the transformation of food system, the planet cannot provide actual demand.

Reduce of Insecurity

• Is reducing the number of people in Brazil that suffers from food insecurity or malnutrition, the government is considering the possibilities of production costs reduction, particularly, in urban areas where its harder.
• The production also needs to guarantee quantity of calorie as for the health and balanced necessary nutrients.

Family Agriculture and New Form Of Production

• Other forms of agriculture produce less water and soil.
• Those are the agriculture in new places and conditions that also deserve research attention
• Is needed that partnerships come together to reach a health and animal care system

Added Value

• As a manner to create more value to family agriculture products as organic food certification for a new and developing market.

Transition with Energy

• Agriculture is more and more complex which creates the tendency to accelerate the transition using base of renewable forms, part of the complex and interconnected situation, everyone is involved
• Brazil has a different energic matrix, in relation to the majority of the other countries for the renovation of new sources, 47,4 % of energy use is get from renewable forms the rest 14%.

Digital Transformation

• Digital transformation improve and impulse companies also must consider digital transfusions as improve and elevate
• Digital revolution use data for a better manage of operations. Agricultural prevision if put in the context of the use of digital technologies offer optimization of productivity of services.

Transformation Actions

• This action requires investment in the infrastructure, requires high investment is the capacitation of the employees is important because depend of continuous capacitation in digital information

Ecosystems

• The interaction from the agent with productive sectors and organizations who foment innovation
• The innovation in the system depend in interaction of sectors to create knowledge
• Embrapa needs to interact synergistically, needs to increase the relationship with other

Values

• Composed of integrity and trust, with ethics and moral actions in all actions from de company, trust on the capacity of respecting people diversity and openness to new things
• Cooperative, innovation is the new form to put value to the product.

Strategic Objectives

• The strategy will reflect the objectives from the selected objective, also influence public policies and also the partners
• In line with the values is the foundation from Embrapa contribute to challenges in the future