Santa Catarina Rural Development Project for Sustainability and Innovation (WB-P506142)

Countries
  • Brazil
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
State of Santa Catarina
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Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
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Project Status
Proposed
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Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Mar 31, 2025
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
State of Santa Catarina - Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Santa Catarina
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Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
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Investment Type(s)
Loan
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 120.00 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 150.00 million
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Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Jul 31, 2024

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to increase climate resilience and market access of family farmers in the State of Santa Catarina.

The project aims at increasing resilience of family farmers by lifting the bottlenecks that prevent their sustainable intensification and development. The project will support family farmers in targeted areas to (i) improve the agrifood system sustainability, through the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, sustainable management of natural resources and environmental regularization, (ii) build minimum asset ownership for agrifood production, through productive assets transfers, access to finance and innovations, technical and managerial assistance, and (iii) delivery of last-mile agriculture public goods and services by supporting farms connection to rural roads, on-farm electrification and digital connectivity, access to information. The project will also provide support to the State of Santa Catarina to integrate this approach into its agricultural policies and programs.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
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Environmental risk is moderate. The moderate risk rating accounts primarily for the moderate impacts from the road rehabilitation works, which may include: the generation and disposal of construction wastes; water pollution from construction runoff; noise, dust emissions and land degradation from quarries, construction workplace and traffic hazards for the workers and communities; and workplace construction OHS risks. Also, moderate risks can be expected from investments on agri-food marketing chain (food processing) such as wastewater generation and disposal (subcomponent 1.1). On the other side lower and diffuse impacts are also expected from smallholder’s (family) agriculture activities supported by the project (subcomponent 1.2) and community-based tourism (subcomponent 1.3). The prior experience and demonstrated capacity to manage E&S risks built from Project’s phase 1 experience has also been considered as part of the risk rating determination.

The social risk rating also is Moderate. Although it cannot be ruled out that the recovery works of critical points of secondary roads may require the acquisition of small areas of bare land, the Project is not expected to need land acquisition with significant adverse impacts related to physical or economic resettlement. Adverse impacts related to the influx of workers and issues related to sexual harassment or abuse and violence against women are also not expected. 

Investment Description
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Component 1. Agrifood system sustainability (Total cost US$47.70 million; IBRD loan US$38.16 million; counterpart funding US$9.54 million).

Component 2. Agrifood Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Total cost US$52.45 million; IBRD loan US$41.96 million; counterpart funding US$10.49 million).

Component 3. Agriculture public goods (Total cost US$37.40 million).

Component 4. Public management of the agrifood system (Total cost US$12.45 million)


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World Bank

Marie Caroline Paviot
Senior Agriculture Economist

Irene Natalia Wasilevsky
Senior Agriculture Economist

Borrower/Client/Recipient

State of Santa Catarina

Implementing Agencies

Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Santa Catarina
Alexandre Conceição Neto
Coordenador de Projetos
conceicaoneto@agricultura.sc.gov.br

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