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Brazil is strengthening its agricultural cooperation with African countries by opening up new markets and promoting rural development initiatives. Brazil has opened nine new markets in Africa, including for the export of live livestock, embryos, seeds and genetic material. The Second Brazil-Africa Food Security Dialogue focused on the exchange of knowledge and practices to improve local food production in Africa. The event brought together more than 40 African delegations and international organizations to discuss public policy, research and innovation, and financing. South-South cooperation was highlighted as an effective way to transform rural areas and empower rural communities. Brazil has signed memoranda of understanding with several African countries to strengthen technical cooperation and improve agricultural and livestock systems. The objectives of market opening are to strengthen technical cooperation, improve agricultural and livestock systems, and support initiatives focused on food security and rural development.
Brazil has opened nine new markets in Africa – particularly with Benin and Senegal – mainly in the export of the following products:
- Live cattle (cattle and buffaloes)
- Embryons bovins et de buffles (in vivo et in vitro)
- Cattle and buffalo semen
- Hatching eggs
- Day-old chicks
- Pork semen
- Semences de Brachiaria (Brachiaria spp.)
- Apples
- Export of bovine and buffalo embryos.
Source : Rural 21