Sergio Schlesinger
Interested Apresentação companies
Brazilian federal administration considers the creation of opportunities for the national productive sector as an additional advantage of this internationalization process, indicating as main beneficiaries’ machinery producers and heavy equipments, engineering companies, consulting firms, contractors, technology suppliers of agricultural and industrial processes. (BNDES, 2011) The Centro de Agronegócio da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation Agribusiness Center - GVAgro), coordinated by former agriculture minister Roberto Rodrigues (2003-2006), seems to have been the first beneficiary of this process. Through its Project Area, FGV launched the Tropical Belt Project, whose objective is to create an agrofuels and food production belt in tropical countries. For this purpose the institution already executed, up to the end of 2011, agrofuels production feasibility studies in 13 countries in Africa and Central America (Guarany, 2011). Also included in the biodiesel and ethanol studies were charcoal production from eucalyptus. In Brazil firewood and charcoal represent around 35% of consumption of wood produced in artificial forests. Resources are supplied by APEX-Brazil, InterAmerican Development Bank, Organization of American States, FINEP (Studies and Projects Funder) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Tropical Belt Project results from technical cooperation agreements among Brazil, the US and the European Commission. In addition to these studies FGV is getting ready to raise US$ 1 billion through a fund coordinated by DWS Investments, a manager belonging to the Deutsche Bank, to finance the 17