Brazil and sustainable agriculture, Bruscato: working to cut emissions for meat production VIDEOINTERVIEW

“I’m Louisa Bruscato, the executive director from the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock. We are a non-profit association that gathers all the value chain, the livestock value chain production in Brazil since producers input service, NGOs, slaughterhouses, industries, and also banks”.

Luiza Bruscato, Executive Director of Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock, spoke to AGRICOLAE, during the conference at the Brazilian Embassy in Italy dedicated to agricultural sustainability in Brazil and organized by Brazil Agri-Food Facts.

“We are working on the development of sustainability throughout the livestock value chain in Brazil. The main message that I would like to say today is that we are working very hard to improve our sustainability in all the points of beef production in Brazil because we are a provider of these commodities to many countries in the world, especially Italy and other countries, important countries in Europe if we are not sustainable as we are complete value chain, Europe cannot also have sustainable products if you are using our meat“, says Bruscato.

“The main point is we need to collaborate, we need to contribute and work together to improve sustainability in our value chain. This is the main thing: we need to work together as a collaborative value chain. One point that I would like to highlight is that Brazil nowadays has 66% of its territory covered by forest. So we also believe that we need to continuously conserve this area because it’s important for our climate and everything.

We have this, the Brazilian Forest Code law, to guarantee that we are going to have and continue having this amount of area covered by forest. One important point is that we are managing to reduce vulnerability in our production. We have many, many strategic managements to improve that, including integrated crop-livestock and forest production systems. So it’s a very important kind of production for the production system that we have and nowadays we have 18 million hectares of the area using this integrated crop-livestock and forest production system.

We believe that we need to have more adaptable kinds of production to have this adaptability for, to reduce climate change”, concludes the Director.