The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance and, in particular, health, food security and bioenergy. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade, he sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south. The book focuses on Brazil's activities in the fight against HIV, hunger and poverty, and in the global politics of bioenergy. It also investigates Brazil's interactions with other state and non-state actors, presenting an up-to-date analysis of Brazil's contemporary foreign policy and its increasing influence in the international system.