Law No. 13.716 creating the State Policy to Fight Extreme Poverty. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Rio Grande do Sul Document type Legislation Date 2011 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development Keyword Policy/planning Special fund Research Food security Farming Financial agricultural measures Poverty Agricultural development Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Law creates the State Policy to Fight Extreme Poverty. The specific objectives of the State Policy are: implement a State Programme aimed at establishing mechanisms of socio-economic development for social programmes of the Federal and State Government, addressed to the populations in a state of social vulnerability of regions and territories in which the State is developing initiatives of local development and food and nutritional security; articulate efficiently the specific actions and policies to maximize their impact and results; promote initiatives of social protection, income generating activities, family income and alternatives to increase productivity in food production; raise funds from the Union, from private initiative to finance structural actions to fight against poverty; build actions addressed to population without access to the Federal and State Governments' anti-poverty policies; create specific instruments to fight extreme poverty in the rural areas; combat slave and forced labour and promote measures to eradicate it; create, in partnership with university and research institutions, a Social Policy Observatory to systematize information on poverty and construct indicators to support development and poverty reduction policies. The State Policy also includes: the use of financial, budgetary and credit instruments, public and private; a specific Fund to Fight Extreme Poverty and Reduce Social Inequalities; agreements and contracts with civil society entities, in order to carry out actions coordinated with the public sector; use of microcredit to finance projects for achieving the objectives of this Law. Full text Portuguese Website www.al.rs.gov.br