The presentation describes the baseline situation, project activities, national partners, as well as country management and implementation plans

1. UNEP - GEF Funded Project
Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
for Improved Human Nutrition and Well-Being
Brazil
International Steering Committee Meeting
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
25 - 26 April 2012

2. Presentation topics:
•Project development in Brazil: general aspects
•Framework of the project in Brazil: public policies linking
biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and food security
•Project key activities (and their relationship with the project
components)
•Agrobiodiversity Products Targeted in Brazil
•Implementation arrangements
•Final Consideration

3. Project Development in Brazil:
General Aspects

4. • Under the coordination of the Ministry of the Environment (MMA):
Biodiversity Programme included in the plurianual budget - “Foster the
sustainable use of biodiversity by adding value to agrobiodiversity and
sociobiodiversity products while promoting sustainable markets and the
recognition of environmental services value”

5. Premisses:
• It is not a new project
• Articulation and strengthening of transversal public policies
(BFN) already going on
• Project operational plan and implementation: Participative
process

6. Ministry of the Environment
Programme 2018
Project
Financial Coordination
Manager Unit
Programme
Advisory Committee
National Steering
Committee
Ministry for Ministry of
Agrarian
National Food Ministry of Ministry of Ministry of
Social
Supply Company Agriculture Health Education /FNDE
Development Development
Food Procurement National Plan for the Development of Food and Schools Meals
Programme Promotion of Socio- Organic Agriculture Nutrition National National
PAA biodiversity Product Pró-Orgânico Policy Programme
Chains PNAN PNAE
PNPSB
Inter relation among Ministries, stackeholders, the project coordination unite and the
financial manager

7. Project Development in Brazil:
Key activities and their relationship
with the project’s components

8. Proposed key activities
1) Nutritional characterization (macro and micronutrients analyses) of edible plant
species targeted by the federal initiatives (contribution to data bank and biodiversity
indicators in the diet).
2) Development of new recipes (targeting mainly children), with special emphasis to
the plant species listed in the Ministry of Environment´s “Plants for the Future”
Project may cover other potential edible native plant species.
3) Support the development of different media aiming to disseminate the recipes and,
concurrently, develop and implement strategies for consumer information and
education about the national agrobiodiversity products, with emphasis in their
nutritional value and socio-environmental benefits.
4) Implementation and maintenance of school gardens.
5) Support studies in economic and regulatory aspects aiming to solve or minimize
policy problems within the production chain of the native agrobiodiversity products
and support studies aiming to evaluate technological alternatives to add value to the
sociobiodiversity products.
6) Allow the development of activities that favor the proposition and implementation
of policies that clearly foster the integration of edible food biodiversity within health,
agriculture, education and development sectors and, simultaneously, reduce/
exclude policies that threaten this integration.

9. INSTITUTION NAME:
PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE PROGRAMME, POLICY, PLAN, ACTION:
Name of the Programme, Policy, Plan, Action in the scope of the sustainable use of biodiversity for human
nutrition:
Objectives: Public/ Beneficiaries: Region (Federation Unit) of reach:
Beggining date /Implementation period Annual Budget ( 2008-1011):
Outline how the Programme, Policy, Plan, Action will benefit from the GEF-Nutrition Project´s results and the
activities:
Outline which information or data may be generated by the GEF-Nutrition Project that may foster the
Programme, Plan, Policy, Action objectives (as: (i) nutritional composition determination of extrativism
species/cultivars; (ii) evaluation of extrativism inventory; (iii) ethnobotanic survey; (iv) development of
strategies/educational material in several steps of the extrativism production chain (from field to table); (v)
capacitating actions; among others).
Outline the biodiversity species already priorized/identified in the activities in developmento by thie
Programme/Plan/Policy/Action. If possible, please add production data as well as processing and
commercialization procedures (including values).
Outline the challenges for the integration Food -Biodiversity-Production and Consumption – Food Security in
the scope of the Programme/Plan/Policy/Action.
If possible, please, describe for the Programme/Plan/Policy/Action:
Strengths (internal environment), Weakness (internal environment), Opportunities (external environment),
Threats (external opportunities)
Outline other data that may be important for the project:

10. Rationale:
• Lack of Nutritional Data for the Socioagrobiodiversity products
• Obstacles for the production, selling and commercialization from
agrosociobiodiversity products (animal and vegetal) including:
scale, quality, seasonality, logistics, transport, storage, conservation,
shelf life improving technologies, transformation technologies,
infrastructure, good manufacture practices, consumer awareness
and so on.
• Obstacles related to the management of the “organizations /
associations”
• Issues related to market and regulatory demands

11. Project Development in Brazil:
Agrobiodiversity Products Targeted in
the Brazil-GEF Nutrition Project

12. Edible Species
“The Plants for the Future Project” - (MMA)
“National Plan for the Promotion of Socio-biodiversity Product
Chains” (PNPSB) - (MMA, MDA, MDS)”
“Non conventional leafy vegetables”

13. Plants for the Future (2004)
Objetives
• Identify local or regional Brazilian plant species of actual or
potential economic value;
• Prioritize potential species and promote their sustainable use
aiming to:
 Identify new options for direct use by family farming;
 Broaden the opportunities for industry investment on the
development of new products;
 Evaluate the degree of use and the existing gaps on the scientific
knowledge;
 Increase food security and contribute to minimize the
vulnerability of the Brazilian food system;
 Develop partnerships towards the characterization of the
nutritional value of these native plant species.

14. Plants for the Future: methodology
Information gathered
Uses - Management - Productive chain - Regional importance - Ecology - Geographical
distribution.
Criteria for the definition of priority species
• Traditional use;
• Existing market;
• Extractive exploitation / cropping;
• Existing studies;
• Threatened or not / endemism;
• Multi-functionality and use.

15. Five Brazilian Geographical Political Regions where the initiative “Plants for the Future”
was developed

16. Brazil’s Plants for the Future Initiative
CO 16
NE 12
Region
N 16
SE 9
S 16
Priorized Food Species

17. Castanha-do-Brasil
Bertholletia excelsa
Açaí
Euterpe oleracea Babaçu
Orbignya spp.
Umbu
Spondias tuberosa
Castanha-do-Brasil
Bertholletia excelsa
Buriti
Mauritia flexuos
Erva Mate Juçara
Ilex paraguariensis Euterpes eduli Pequi
Pinhão Caryocar brasiliense
Araucaria angustifolia

18. Non conventional leafy vegetables
Amaranthus viridis, Sonchus oleraceus, Cereus jamacaru, Spilanthes sp,
Emilia Sonchifolia, Taraxacum officinalis, Bidens pilosa,
Xanthosoma sagittifolium and Moringa oleifera

19. Project Development in Brazil
1- Management

20. Programme Advisory Committee
MMA MDA MDS MAPA MEC MS CONA
Ministry of Ministry for Ministry of Ministry of Ministry of Ministry of B
the Agrarian Social Agriculture, Education Health
Development Developmen National
Environment Livestock and Supply
t and Fight Food Supply Company
Against
Hunger

21. National Steering Committee
PAA PNAN PNAE Pró-Orgânico PNPSB
Food Procurement Food and Nutrition Schools Meals National Development of Organic Promotion of Socio-biodiversity
Programme National Policy Programme Agriculture Product Chains National Plan

22. Project Development in Brazil:
2- Implementation Arrangements

23. Choosing the sites: Participative process
Identify at least three undergoing “projects”/ sites (from field to
table/market/governmental facility) and the “obstacles” where the
project can interfere
(http://www.agendha.org.br/)
(http://www.biofort.com.br/_eng/index_eng.php)
BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY :
Nutritional evaluation of agrobiodiversity food items and Food
Composition Data made available
Identification of agrosociobiodiversity within the food items
acquired by the Federal initiatives (PAA and PNAE) (examples
examples)

24. Proposed Strategies
• Activities will be, preferable, developed by CECANES*
• Colaborative actvities with NGO and other Institutions
• Implement or improve networks for FCD
• Search for financial funds aiming research activities for filling
the gaps (technological, agronomic, economic, management,
logistics, human resources, markets, consumer behavior) in
order to achieve continuity)

25. Next Steps
• Meeting with the national partners to define the Operational
Plan which includes:
- Definition of the “sites -projects”
- Methodology (including the definition of Collaborating
Centers)
- Chronogram
- Responsibilities definition

26. Final Consideration
Huge challenge!