Decree No. 11.451 creating the National Council for Sustainable Rural Development. Country/Territory Brazil Document type Regulation Date 2023 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition Keyword Institution Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Gender Agricultural development Family farming Food sovereignty Sustainable development Farming Agricultural commodities Food security Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Decree creates the National Council for Sustainable Rural Development (Condraf), under the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture. Condraf is a collegiate body whose purpose is to propose guidelines for the formulation and implementation of structuring public policies aimed at sustainable rural development, agrarian reform, family farming and food supply. Condraf is responsible to: promote public policies related to: a) family farming; b) agricultural development; c) agrarian reform; d) land governance; territorial development; f) food supply; follow-up, monitor and propose programmes and public policies to the needs of agrarian reform and family farming, especially in relation to: a) sustainable rural development; b) National Plan for Agrarian Reform (PNRA); c) National Policy of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (PNATER); d) National land regularization policy; e) National Policy for the Sustainable Development of Traditional Peoples and Communities (PNPCT); and f) National food supply policy. In particular, aims to: a) increase the production and supply of healthy, adequate and sustainable food to guarantee sovereignty and food and nutritional security; b) overcoming rural poverty through productive inclusion, access to markets and alternative marketing channels, and job and income generation; c) reduce income, gender, generational and ethnic inequalities; d) diversify economic activities; e) promote the generation, appropriation and use of scientific, technological, managerial and organizational knowledge by rural populations; and f) encourage the exchange between scientific, technological and organizational knowledge and the traditional knowledge of family farmers, etc. Full text Portuguese Website www.planalto.gov.br