The
Strategic Plan anticipates a future scenario, which is the context
of the vision proposed. Policies are defined and an action plan
is outlined for the realisation of that vision. Objectives are classified
by areas of strategic concentration to define the main issues addressed.
A future with many challenges has been predicted for the agricultural
production; and biotechnology is proposed to play as the main source
of technological solutions to confront these challenges. But biotechnology
is not just a technological matter, its development involves cutting-edge
science, political, legal and economic variables, and external and
internal negotiations.
The main idea is that, in a period of ten years from now, all the
tools of modern biotechnology will be applied to any possible branch
of the agriculture and related productive activities.
The plan proposes to diversify the application of the biotechnology,
both in the number of tools as in the receiving productive activities.
The Plan considers creating a favourable environment (in political,
legal and public acceptance matters) for the creation and development
of biotechnology-based companies, and also for the consolidation
of the existing companies.
It is proposed to attend the increasing agricultural production,
while preserving and improving the life quality of the present population
and future generations.
One strength of the Plan resides on its flexibility: the accomplishment
of the plan has been based on an implementation scheme that is built
almost simultaneously along its execution, including the revision
of objectives, goals and main actions during key years.
Another strength of the plan is the collective bias of its elaboration:
stakeholders of the agricultural and livestock activity took part
in different discussions, and they contributed with relevant elements
that promoted both the quality and the general acceptance of the
document. For several agricultural biotechnology strategic questions,
a regional treatment has been anticipated with the purpose of preserving
the federal range of the plan, and the attention to local issues.
Finally, the relationships with countries of different blocks are
defined in terms of technological co-operation, and commercial exchange
or competition.
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STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
2005-2015