Brazilian agronomists

Johanna Liesbeth Kubelka Döbereiner (28 November 1924 – 5 October 2000) was a Brazilian agronomist.

José Graziano da Silva (born November 17, 1949) is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer. As a scholar, he has authored several books about the problems of agriculture in Brazil. Between 2003 and 2004, Graziano served in the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cabinet as Extraordinary Minister for Food Security, being responsible for implementing the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) program, which was a focal point of the Lula Administration's cash transfer program Bolsa Familia. On June 26, 2011, Graziano was elected director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), becoming the first Latin American ever to hold the position. After his first term from 1 January 2012 to 31 July 2015, Graziano da Silva was re-elected for a second 4 year-term (1 August 2015 to 31 July 2019) during FAO's 39th Conference.

José Antônio Kroepf Lutzenberger (December 17, 1926 – May 14, 2002) was a Brazilian environmentalist.

Harri Lorenzi (born 1949) is a Brazilian agronomic engineer, author on trees of the Atlantic Mata and a collaborating agronomist of the garden of Fazenda Cresciumal, Ruy De Souza Queiroz. Between his workmanships, he published four books in the end of the 1990s, they are: Brazilian palms, Brazilian Trees (1 and 2, also in English), Tropical Plants of Burle Marx and Brazilian Ornamental Plants.

Alaídes Puppin Ruschel-Alayde (12 December 1931 – 22 February 2021) was a Brazilian agronomist, researcher, university professor and Brazilian artist. She was professor and researcher for 38 years at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo. She was Mariângela Hungria da Cunha [pt] advisor.

Álvaro Coutinho Aguirre (Santa Teresa, ES, July 7, 1899 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, December 28, 1987) was a Brazilian agronomist, zoologist and naturalist. Aguirre created the first reserve park for wild animals in Brazil, the Sooretama Biological Reserve at the state of Espírito Santo (the first protected area created in Brazil was in 1937. He dedicated his life to the preservation of the Brazilian flora and fauna, especially the Atlantic Forest and the biggest primate of the Americas, the Muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoids). During the 1960s, he undertook many expeditions to study the life and habits of the Muriqui and its conditions at the time. The results showed a considerable reduction of the groups of the animals, due to deforestation and lack of preservation of their habitat.

Ana Maria Primavesi (Austria, 3 October 1920 – São Paulo, Brazil, 5 January 2020) was an agronomist, researcher and educator of soil science and especially the ecological management of tropical Brazilian soil.

Warwick Estevam Kerr (9 September 1922 – 15 September 2018) was a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees (A. m. scutellata) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 in Rio Claro, São Paulo in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

Ary Rigo (15 November 1946 – 30 September 2021) was a Brazilian agronomist and politician. A member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, he served as Vice-Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul from 1991 to 1994. He was also President of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2001 to 2003.

Veridiana Victoria Rossetti (1917 - 2010) was a Brazilian agronomist and the first woman in Brazil with a degree in agronomy to practise the profession. She became a world authority on citrus diseases, was a recipient of several national and international awards, and is considered to have made a major contribution to the Brazilian economy and the lives of farmers by helping to reduce the losses experienced by the orange industry in the country.