The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply (''Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento'', abbreviated MAPA) is a

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department in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The jurisdiction of this ministry is to formulate and implement policies for

agribusiness Agribusiness is the industry, enterprises, and the field of study of value chains in agriculture and in the bio-economy, in which case it is also called bio-business or bio-enterprise. The primary goal of agribusiness is to maximize profit w ...

development, integrating the aspects of market, technological, organizational and environmental care for the consumers of the country and abroad, promoting

food security Food security speaks to the availability of food in a country (or geography) and the ability of individuals within that country (geography) to access, afford, and source adequate foodstuffs. According to the United Nations' Committee on World F ...

, income generation and employment, reducing inequalities and increasing social inclusion. The Ministry was founded during the

Brazilian Empire The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and (until 1828) Uruguay. Its government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Dom Pe ...

in 1860. Originally named ''Secretaria de Estado dos Negócios da Agricultura, Comércio e Obras Públicas'', the body was extinguished in the early years of the

First Brazilian Republic The First Brazilian Republic, also referred to as the Old Republic ( pt, República Velha ), officially the Republic of the United States of Brazil, refers to the period of Brazilian history from 1889 to 1930. The Old Republic began with the de ...

and re-established in 1906 as the ''Ministerio dos Negocios da Agricultura, Industria e Commercio''. In 1930, it was renamed the ''Ministério da Agricultura''.

Agroenergy

Brazil is the world leader in producing agroenergy and the Ministry of Agriculture encourages policies which develop

ethanol fuel Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel. It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline. The first production car running entirely on ethanol was the ...

production.

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Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

Ministries established in 1860 1860 establishments in Brazil Agricultural organisations based in Brazil {{Brazil-gov-stub

Agroenergy

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