JBS Global CEO advocates sustainable agriculture at the heart of climate and peace issues
Coordinator of the Food Systems working group, Tomazoni highlighted the need to scale up existing solutions for conflicts that have hunger as one of their causes.
"We cannot deal with climate and food security separately. We have to put agriculture at the center of this discussion. We have to increase productivity and improve the way we produce. This is essential if we want peace in the world, because there will be no peace as long as there are people who are hungry", said the executive.
Tomazoni warned of the disparity between the relevance of agriculture in global emissions and the low volume of investments destined to the sector for the mitigation of climate change. "Currently, less than 4% of investments for climate change go to the area of agriculture and only 1.7% of climate finance is destined for projects in the field in developing countries".
The CEO of JBS cited practical examples of the Company's initiatives that demonstrate the potential of sustainable agriculture in Brazil, such as RestaurAmazônia, a project by the JBS Fund for the Amazon, which, in partnership with Basa (Banco da Amazônia SA), offers credit to small producers in Pará, and the livestock tracking program in partnership with the state government and the NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC), which has donated 3 million tags in total. "At COP30, we will use Brazil to show examples. There are fantastic projects here that can be used and have been scaled up in other countries", he explains.
To drive this transformation, Tomazoni highlighted the need to involve the entire production chain, from seeds and fertilizers to marketing, and to develop appropriate metrics for measuring emissions and capturing greenhouse gases in tropical agriculture.
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