Bolsa Família is the largest direct income transfer program in the world. The program is part of the Brazil Without Poverty Plan and benefits families in poverty and extreme poverty throughout the country.
"Today, Brazil is not known just for football. The innovations it has achieved, mainly in family farming, have become benchmarks for combating hunger worldwide."
José Graziano da Silva, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
• electric water pump for wells;
• irrigation;
• forage machine and grinders to make feed for animals;
• electric motors, replacing diesel models;
• milk, meat or fish refrigeration;
• greenhouses;
• flour mills;
• processing of fruits.
"The great achievement of the Bolsa Família Program is the direct confrontation with poverty. And it is technology that is constantly being improved, with a number of changes that have been made to it in recent years. It is the main symbol of the search for equality in our country. The second element that we strive for is the economic growth provided by the prosperity of the people who are the beneficiaries."
"There are good reasons to believe that Brazil will emerge victorious in this unprecedented challenge. Its task is facilitated by the fact that it has designed and is implementing a plan based on an explicit social contract, and has been able to mobilize human and financial resources needed to quickly move towards socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable development."
"From a social standpoint, the Brazil Without Poverty program is the broadest inclusion policy and thus allows access to real democracy for tens of millions of Brazilians. From a strictly economic standpoint, it is a considerable broadening of the bases of the internal market for mass consumption, stimulating growth without neglecting social inclusion."
"With the Brazil Without Poverty program, the poor have become the object of the transformation of Brazil. The Plan triggers social changes that are related to this subject in Brazilian society. This is part of the conception of a state policy that is creating the capacity for these people to structure demands that public policies offer conditions, based on their insertion, for them to achieve their rights. "
"Over the last decade, extreme poverty fell by half and, contrary to the international trend, the country has achieved a remarkable reduction of inequality. Many factors contributed to this progress. The Government's commitment to poverty reduction, reflected in innovative social policies, such as the conditional cash transfers through the Bolsa Família Program, undoubtedly played a key role."
