Partnerships and cooperation: lessons, challenges and perspectives of joint work.

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), committed to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of Brazilian agriculture in the search for increasingly safe and efficient products, services and technologies, has brought SDGs to the heart of its discussions and institutional guidelines by aligning all of its Strategic Objectives with SDGs, particularly SDG 17, which promotes global partnerships. Embrapa contributions aligned with targets 17.6, 17.7, 17.8, 17.11, 17.16 and 17.17, as presented throughout the chapters of this book, go beyond advancing knowledge and producing technologies for Brazilian agriculture; they also positively impact the rural environment worldwide, especially in tropical countries, which Brazil maintains intense technical cooperation with.