CAR - Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional

Name

CAR - Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional

Legal name

CAR - Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional

Website

https://car.ba.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

CAR - Companhia de Desenvolvimento e Ação Regional is a state government-owned development company in Bahia, Brazil, administering public notice programs in agricultural production, food security, rural tourism, and traditional community support for family farmers, quilombola, and indigenous communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Salvador

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CAR is a state-owned regional development company that administers publicly funded grant programs (editais) supporting rural poultry farming, traditional root crops, community-based rural tourism, medicinal plant cultivation, and food sovereignty projects for quilombola and indigenous communities across the State of Bahia. Programs are delivered at no cost to beneficiaries through the SETAFS territorial office network and managed via public notices published on the State of Bahia government portal.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Galinha Caipira da Bahia Public Notice Program Public grant program (Edital CAR No. 009) supporting rural free-range poultry farming production in Bahia, targeting family farmers and traditional rural communities as part of regional agricultural development initiatives.
• Raízes da Bahia Public Notice Program Public grant program (Edital CAR No. 008) focused on traditional root crop agriculture and food production in Bahia, supporting local farming communities and food security.
• Turismo Rural Comunitário da Bahia Public Notice Program Public grant program (Edital CAR No. 007) supporting community-based rural tourism initiatives in Bahia, promoting sustainable tourism and local economic development.
• Plantas Medicinais da Bahia Public Notice Program Public grant program (Edital CAR No. 006) supporting medicinal plant cultivation and traditional medicine knowledge preservation in Bahia communities.
• Bahia Que Produz e Alimenta - Quilombos da Bahia Project Food production and security program targeting quilombola (Afro-Brazilian remnant community) territories in Bahia, promoting food sovereignty, sustainable agriculture, and community economic empowerment.
• Bahia Que Produz e Alimenta - Povos Indígenas da Bahia Project Food production and security program targeting indigenous communities in Bahia, supporting traditional farming practices, food sovereignty, and economic development within indigenous territories.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Broad incumbents

• EMBRAPA - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária: Brazilian agricultural research corporation whose research outputs (traditional crops, family farming techniques) directly support the type of programs CAR administers (Raízes da Bahia, Plantas Medicinais), making it a key enabling peer.
• SEBRAE - Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas: Brazilian micro and small business support service with overlapping goals of inclusive economic development, supporting small producers and community-based enterprises — a comparable inclusive-development mandate at national scale.
• SEAGRI - Secretaria da Agricultura, Pecuária, Irrigação, Pesca e Aquicultura da Bahia: Larger Bahia state secretariat covering agriculture, livestock, irrigation, fisheries, and aquaculture. Overlaps with CAR on agricultural development (e.g., Galinha Caipira) but operates across the entire agriculture sector rather than targeted community development.
• SUDENE - Superintendência do Desenvolvimento do Nordeste: Brazilian federal agency for Northeast regional development, of which Bahia is part. Operates as a broader regional development incumbent with overlapping goals of reducing regional disparities in the same geography CAR serves.
• INCRA - Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária: Brazilian federal land reform and agrarian colonization institute that interfaces with family farming and traditional communities, providing a broader incumbent peer for CAR's rural community programs.

Regional players

• BAHIAINVESTE - Empresa Baiana de Investimentos e Ativos S.A. Sibling Bahia state investment and assets company also listed on ba.gov.br; comparable state-owned structure and regional mandate, though focused on investment vehicles rather than direct community development programs.

Direct peers

• Codevasf - Companhia de Desenvolvimento dos Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba: Federal regional development company with a comparable 'Companhia de Desenvolvimento' structure focused on regional development programs, making it the closest structural and operational peer to CAR at the federal level.
• SDR - Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Rural (Bahia): Sibling Bahia state secretariat also listed on the ba.gov.br portal; both operate overlapping rural development mandates across Bahia, making it the closest functional peer for CAR's agricultural and family-farming programs.
• SEPROMI - Secretaria de Promoção da Igualdade Racial e dos Povos e Comunidades Tradicionais (Bahia): Sibling Bahia state secretariat specifically tasked with promoting racial equality and traditional peoples/communities, directly overlapping with CAR's Quilombola and Indigenous community programs.

Others

• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: International organization whose food security, family farming, and traditional agriculture mandates (e.g., Family Farming Knowledge Hub) directly align with CAR's Bahia que Produz e Alimenta programs for Quilombola and Indigenous communities.

Market position

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

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Investors

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Investments

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