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We connect the links of the chain:
producers, cooperatives, researchers, academia, industry,
and the market. We generate knowledge, exchange
experiences, and face challenges together.

The future of agriculture is organic

Folio connects science, producers, and the market to transform agriculture into a regenerative and organic model.

The future of agriculture is organic

A new design in the field: less focus on products, and more on processes. It is an agriculture of knowledge.

The future of agriculture is organic

Soybeans and corn account for nearly 65% of Brazil’s total planted area.

Crop production expanded as a result of the Green Revolution, but structural changes are now necessary to build a new climate-resilient and intelligent food system.

Green Revolution

Excessive use of chemical inputs and soluble fertilizers
Physicochemical view of the soil
Higher carbon footprint
Contamination of aquifers
Producer dependency logic
Focus on the product

Regenerative
and organic

Biological-based solutions
Physicochemical-biological view of the soil
Greater crop rotation, cover crops, and landscape integration
New generation of machinery
Producer autonomy logic
Focus on the process

The agriculture that brought us here is not the one that will take us into the future.

The Green Revolution, initiated in the 20th century, transformed Brazil into an agricultural powerhouse. It introduced synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and high-yield seeds — tools that expanded production and reduced hunger.

But this model, based on chemical dependency and monoculture, has reached the limit of its viability. Productivity gains no longer compensate for the high economic, environmental, and social costs.

The country became independent in agricultural production, but dependent on the import of inputs and technologies concentrated in a few countries.

This dependency created vulnerability: any exchange rate fluctuation, international conflict, or logistics crisis directly impacts crop production costs.

Today, many producers are hostage to the prices of pesticides and fertilizers, with increasingly smaller profit margins and biologically depleted soils.

And why grains? Soybeans and corn are equivalent to 90 million soccer fields. To transform Brazilian agriculture, we need to change the way we plant grains.

Changing the technological package is more than an environmental decision: it is a strategic movement for the country’s sovereignty and food security.

Investing in bioinputs, adapted mechanization, and genetics suited to tropical diversity is about restoring producer autonomy and competitiveness to Brazilian agriculture.

Our work pillars

We develop strategic projects that expand the adoption of new crop management systems. We encourage open innovation, disseminate technology, strengthen capacities, and design financing models to ensure an inclusive transition in the food system.

Pillars of the transition

Bioinputs

Solutions from Brazilian research institutions for tropical agriculture can reduce the use of chemicals, if effectively implemented and adapted in the field.
Our goal is to enable this transformation by promoting biologicals on farms, strengthening distribution companies, and encouraging knowledge within universities.

Genetics

Organic agriculture requires varieties adapted to living and biodiverse soils.
The challenge now is to promote improvement and genetic selection focused not only on productivity, but also on resilience and interaction with the environment, incorporating practices such as genetic rotation and the use of cover crops.

Mechanization

Adaptation of machinery for a system of annual polycultures, seeking the management of a diversity of service plants that are necessary to maintain a system that is always alive and always green, without the intensive use of chemical solutions.

Landscape Ecology

Water is the central input of agriculture, and its availability depends on living landscapes capable of capturing, infiltrating, and retaining this resource. Caring for springs, protected areas, and legal reserves is not just about complying with an environmental obligation — it is about ensuring water resilience, productivity, and the continuity of agriculture itself.

Our area of operation

We operate in Alto and Baixo Paranapanema, a region of great relevance for grain production in São Paulo and Paraná. It is also marked by the coexistence of family farms and large farms, with important remnants of the Atlantic Forest.

How we are transforming the future

We connect the links of the chain: producers, cooperatives, researchers, academia, industry, and the market. We generate knowledge, exchange experiences, and face challenges together. Tropical organic grain agriculture still generates many uncertainties. Folio accelerates answers. Everything is 100% open source, meaning our knowledge is open to everyone.