VOLUNTARY LOCAL REVIEW ON THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN THE STATE OF PARÁ 2023
END HUNGER, ACHIEVE FOOD SECURITY AND IMPROVED NUTRITION AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
THE CORDEIRO DE FARIAS SCHOOL WAS CONTEMPLATED WITH A PROJECT FOR THE CREATION OF A VEGETABLE GARDEN IN THE UNIT.
SDG 2 was created with the purpose of promoting initiatives that aim to abolish all forms of hunger and malnutrition, in order to guarantee that all people, especially children and the elderly, have access to safe and nutritious food. It has eight targets, five of which are aims and three are for implementation. In 2022, the State Government carried out projects and activities that contributed in whole or in part to achieving the targets of SDG 2. These deliveries encourage increased agricultural productivity and enable access by people, especially those most vulnerable, to safe and healthy food.
RELATED TO SDG 2, TO WHICH A CONTRIBUTION WAS OBSERVED IN 2022, ARE PRESENTED BELOW.
TARGET 2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants and the elderly, to safe, culturally adequate, healthy and sufficient food all year round.
TARGET 2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition related to innutrition, reduce forms of malnutrition related to overweight or obesity, foreseeing the achievement by 2025 of the internationally agreed targets on chronic innutrition and acute innutrition in children under five years of age, and ensure the food and nutrition security of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, older persons, and traditional peoples and communities.
TARGET 2.3
By 2030, increase the agricultural productivity and incomes of smallscale food producers, in particular women, family farmers, traditional peoples and communities, aiming both at production for self-consumption and guarantee of social reproduction of these peoples and at their socioeconomic development, by means of safe ad equal access to: i) land and territories traditionally occupied; ii) technical assistance and rural extension, respecting culturally transmitted practices and knowledge; iii) specific lines of credit; iv) local and institutional markets, including public procurement policies; v) associativism and cooperativism encouragement; and vi) opportunities for adding value and non-agricultural employment.
TARGET 2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems, through research, technical assistance and rural extension policies, among others, aiming to implement resilient agricultural practices that increase production and productivity and, at the same time, help to protect, recover and conserve ecosystem services, strengthening the capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, progressively improving the quality of land, soil, water and air.
TARGET 2. A
Increase investment, including through the strengthening of international cooperation, in infrastructure, research and technical assistance and rural extension, in the development of technologies and in the stocking and availability of genetic resources of plants, animals and microorganisms, including native varieties and wild relatives, in order to enhance the capacity for environmentally sustainable agricultural production, prioritizing traditional peoples and communities, family farmers, small and medium-sized producers, adapting new technologies to traditional production systems and considering regional and sociocultural differences.
META 2.5
TARGET 2.5.1
By 2020, ensure conservation of the genetic diversity of native and domesticated species of plants, animals and microorganisms important for food and agriculture, adopting ex situ, in situ and on farm conservation strategies, including germplasm banks, community seed houses or banks and breeding centers, and other forms of conservation adequately managed at local, regional and international levels.
TARGET 2.5.2
By 2020, guarantee fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed, ensuring food sovereignty and food and nutrition security.
Source: IBGE-PAM, 2021.
The Government of the State of Pará has been contributing to achieving the targets proposed by SDG 2, such as promoting and supporting family farming, offering technical assistance, rural credit and infrastructure for the production, marketing and distribution of food, in addition to promoting food and nutritional security. These initiatives impact the productivity and lives of people who depend on food production in the State, especially the most vulnerable. Next, we present the initiatives: Health defense actions ensured protection of animal health in the 144 municipalities, with emphasis on
programs to combat herbivore rabies, brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis, equine infectious anemia, glanders, avian flu and Newcastle disease. In 2022, around 7 million animals were vaccinated. With regard to the control and Eradication of Brucellosis and Tuberculosis, 1,172,927 calves were vaccinated, which ensures protection for the economy and consumers. The set of defense and education actions ensures safe and healthy food for society as a whole, contributing to the achievement of target 2.1, which deals with access to nutritious and sufficient food all year round, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable people.
With regard to the Food and Nutritional Security policy, in contribution to target 2.2, the government of Pará presented the III State Plan for Nutritional and Sustainable Food Security, an instrument that guides the planning, management and execution of the Food and Nutritional Security System. The Plan’s guiding challenges include mapping vulnerable territories; education actions on the Food and Nutrition Security policy, such as the “Healthy Eating and Habit” Project; maintenance of the “Popular Dish” restaurant (Belém, capital); as well
as support for family production, purchase of food, and inclusive consumption in 43 municipalities, reaching 300 families. The “Food Bank” Project serves families by distributing food, promoting educational actions, and planting forest and ornamental essences, with the support of Embrapa Eastern Amazon. The implementation of 10 social-pedagogical vegetable gardens served six municipalities, in Belém (Peace Factory), Concórdia do Pará, Igarapé -Miri, Cametá, and Baião.
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS SERVED
50,000 PEOPLE THROUGHOUT PARÁ
It should be noted, in the same line of action, the technical support to 310 rural producer families, registered in the Feed Brazil Program (PAB), in the regions of Araguaia, Baixo Amazonas, Carajás, Guajará, Guamá, Lago de Tucuruí, Marajó, Rio Caeté, Rio Capim, Tapajós and Tocantins, in addition to promoting the sale of food produced by farmers, intended for people in situations of food and nutritional insecurity, through equipment from the social assistance network or through the public and philanthropic education network. It
also supported the implementation of 10 Pedagogical Social Gardens, to serve around 80 families, in the municipalities of Acará, Belém, Igarapé-Miri, Cametá and Concórdia do Pará.
Target 2.3 indicates, among its objectives, promoting increased productivity and income of family farming producers. In this sense, the implementation of the Support Program for the Development of Handcrafted Agricultural Products contributes to the achievement of the
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target, which, among other measures, instituted the state seal that allows the sale of handcrafted products of animal origin throughout the country. The program served 373 producers from 133 municipalities, using best agricultural and manufacturing practices to promote the production and sale of food produced in a traditional/regional way, which provides an increase in productive occupations, expansion of family income and quality of rural production.
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In 2022, the State Government, through the state policy of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension, provided assistance to more than 65 thousand producers, with qualification and training activities for rural producers, with the objective of disseminating knowledge and agricultural techniques. Activities included courses, lectures, workshops and technical events, as well as technical visits to rural properties. These initiatives contributed to the achievement of targets 2.3 and 2.A with productivity and income in family farming, through investments in qualified technical support.
Aligned with target 2.A, which deals with increasing investment in rural infrastructure, as a direct contribution to improving the living conditions of rural communities, as well as helping to promote sustainable agriculture, the State Government directed programs and projects, such as the Sustainable Territories Program, with support and encouragement to production chains, such as: Proaçaí (açaí), Procacau (cocoa), Promandioca (cassava), Proabacaxi (pineapple), Propecuária (livestock), Proabelhas (bees), Proavesp (poultry), Prosuínos (swine) e Proovinos (ovine).
In 2022, 25 agreements were signed with municipal governments in the amount of R$ 66.5 million, benefiting approximately 475 thousand producers, family farmers and the overall population. The projects were focused on the implementation of demonstration units for rearing free-range chickens; vehicle acquisition; agricultural equipment and implements; in addition to building a fishing terminal, holding events, hiring hours/machines, inputs and services
for the Sustainable Territory, among others.
Aiming to contribute to target 2.4, in the context of initiatives for technical assistance and rural extension, in 2022, ensuring sustainable food production systems, around 50 thousand ATER beneficiaries were assisted in the 144 municipalities, 80% of which were family farmers. Also noteworthy in this total are 860 nonfamily farmers, 1,600 quilombolas and 630 indigenous people, 7,500 settlers and 620 from other categories of beneficiaries.
Target 2.5 seeks to strengthen agriculture’s capacity to face the difficulties imposed by the climate or international trade, improving genetic diversity and the sustainability of agricultural production systems, as well as promoting cooperation to ensure food security and the development of sustainable agriculture. In this way, the State Government contributed in 2022 with:
• Supply of 61 thousand improved cupuaçu seeds, which benefited 357 producers in 76 municipalities;
• Supply of 3.2 million açaí seeds and seedlings of the BRS Pai-d’égua variety. The distribution benefited around 6 thousand producers;
• Supply of 113 thousand seedlings of banana trees of the BRS Pacoua and Pacovan varieties, intended mainly for shading cocoa trees, produced in vitro, benefiting 5,110 producers;
• Supply of 21,000 Citrus seedlings, boosting the agricultural activity of 356 producers.
• Distribution of 2,824 vegetable seed kits, benefiting 3,459 producers.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF EMATER, OVER BRL 1 MILLION WILL BE INVESTED IN THE PRODUCTION OF AÇAÍ
ADEPARÁ PARTICIPATES IN SPECIAL SESSION ON THE CUPUAÇU AND AÇAÍ PRODUCTION CHAINS
