O documentário Agricultura do Futuro apresenta uma visão ampla, crítica e inspiradora sobre os caminhos da agricultura brasileira em meio aos grandes desafios globais do século 21. 

Given its abundance and variety of natural resources – accounting for about 20 per cent of the world’s known species – Brazil has an extraordinary potential to become a world leader in the bioeconomy, creating a vibrant innovation environment, preserving the natural ecosystem and boosting local communities. What would the transition to the bioeconomy look like for the Amazon, and what new high-value products and services could be created using this model? How can technology -including AI, satellites, the cloud – be enablers of this transition? What is required in terms of policies, infrastructure and investment to make it happen?

Panel Discussion 2 in the NSF Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) - Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens (PREP) Workshop.

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the genomic codes of all known species that could be tapped for discovery and innovation, from new medical interventions to more efficient manufacturing processes. He proposed to use blockchain technology to make the data both accessible and trackable so that its use could be monitored. Castilla-Rubio envisioned a time when a company in the U.S. could access a biological asset from the Peruvian Amazon, develop and commercialize a product based on the asset, and have a fraction of the resulting sales land directly in the bank account of various beneficiaries, including the Peruvian government and indigenous communities. Now he was facing major decisions about how to structure EBC to achieve his goals. Should he start at the top and build partnerships with national governments and inter-governmental organizations as the cornerstone of EBC? Or would it be better to forge ahead with a few stakeholders in an entrepreneurial project?

What do ants have to do with self-driving cars? How might the giant monkey frog of the Amazon help to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance? Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio, Founder and Chairman of SpaceTime Ventures, explains why the Amazon basin holds the key to unlocking a bio-economic revolution potentially worth trillions of dollars – and explores the three challenges that must be overcome.

The stress on the earth’s natural systems caused by human activity has considerably worsened in the 25 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil. As a result of the “great acceleration”1 in human economic activity since the mid-20th century, research from many earth system scientists’ suggests that life on land could be entering a period of unprecedented environmental systems change.

The World Economic Forum announced today an ambitious partnership to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth and create an inclusive bio-economy, as part of its Fourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth Initiative.