Brazil

As agreed between Brazil and Germany, the CIM strategic activity areas in Brazil lie primarily within the following development policy priority areas : 

• Protection of tropical forests
• Renewable energies and energy efficiency
• Integrated regional development
• Triangular cooperation.

We will be seeking an intensification of cooperation in the activity area 'protection of tropical forests'. 

CIM has become particularly active in Brazil in development-oriented agricultural research. Its efforts constitute a response to the needs of partners who play a particularly significant role in development policy. One such partner is the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), which is based in Costa Rica.

GIZ supports CIM on site in implementing its programmes and cooperates closely with CIM experts, for example in the programmes:

• Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rainforest
• Triangular Cooperation for the Establishment of an Environmental Technology Center in Peru.

Every year, through its Returning Experts Programme, CIM supports numerous Brazilian experts who return to Brazil following university studies, professional training or employment in their field in Germany. At home in Brazil once more, these experts work mostly as university instructors or consultants, primarily in environmental protection.

Would you like to find out more about CIM's programmes and partners in Brazil?

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