5 Centavos FAO

This piece was issued as part of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization coin program, which encouraged member nations to mint circulating coinage carrying agricultural themes as a form of public awareness campaign during the mid-1970s food crisis. Brazil's participation aligned with the military government's concurrent push to expand domestic agricultural output — the country was aggressively developing the Cerrado region during these same years, a project that would eventually make Brazil one of the world's largest soybean exporters.