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Great piece in
The Economist on
Brazilian Agriculture spotlighting the vast transformation of that country's agri-sector enabled by research organization
Embrapa plus systems-thinking plus savvy venture investment...
"Brazil’s agricultural miracle did not happen through a simple technological fix. No magic bullet accounts for it -- not even the tropical soyabean, which comes closest. Rather, Embrapa’s was a “system approach”, as its scientists call it: all the interventions worked together. Improving the soil and the new tropical soyabeans were both needed for farming the cerrado; the two together also made possible the changes in farm techniques which have boosted yields further. Systems are much harder to export than a simple fix. “We went to the US and brought back the whole package [of cutting-edge agriculture in the 1970s],” says Dr Crestana. “That didn’t work and it took us 30 years to create our own."
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Also, see here an earlier piece in
Businessweek by Joshua Schneyer on
Brazil's Answer to Global Hunger.
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