Agriculture Productivity Growth in Brazil

Arias, Diego; Vieira, Pedro; Contini, Elisio; Farinelli, Barbara; Morris, Michael

doi:10.1596/32202

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“…This crisis effect, however, was always only temporary, also because during such periods’ governments responded by offering attractive investment conditions to domestic and foreign entrepreneurs, or funding and subsidizing infrastructure investments (Banerjee et al 2009 ; Garrett et al 2018 ). Crises can also amplify land-use dynamics, e.g., when production area expansion is used as a strategy to mitigate declining export revenues (Mueller and Mueller 2016 ; Arias et al 2017 ). The last two Brazilian presidents promoted again policies to exploit Amazonian resources to achieve economic growth and to counteract the tense social situation caused by national crises (Souza and Hoff 2019 ; Webber 2020 ).…”

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Forest frontiers out of control: The long-term effects of discourses, policies, and markets on conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon

Pokorny

Pacheco

Jong

et al. 2021

Ambio

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With the Brazilian military governments of the 1960s, systematic economic development of the Amazon began. Social and environmental concerns have entered Amazonian discourses and policies only since the 1990s. Since then, reports of threats to forests and indigenous people have alternated with reports of socio-economic progress and environmental achievements. These contradictions often arise from limited thematic, sectoral, temporal, or spatial perspectives, and lead to misinterpretation. Our paper offers a comprehensive picture of discourses, policies, and socio-environmental dynamics for the entire region over the last five decades. We distinguish eight historical policy phases, each of which had little effect on near-linear dynamics of demographic growth and land-use expansion, although some policies showed the potential to change the course of development. To prevent local, national, and international actors from continuing to assert harmful interests in the region, a coherent long-term commitment and change in the collective mindset are needed.

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Forest frontiers out of control: The long-term effects of discourses, policies, and markets on conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon

Pokorny

Pacheco

Jong

et al. 2021

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“…For trade ministries, there is frequent emphasis on export maximisation 40. Although global demand for tobacco leaf has diminished in recent years,12 demand for inexpensive leaf remains sufficiently robust and a ‘race-to-the-bottom’ among low-cost producers has developed 41.…”

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Tobacco farming: overcoming an understated impediment to comprehensive tobacco control

Lencucha

Drope

Magati³

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Tob Control

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Tobacco farming has emerged as an important concern for tobacco control advocates. Tobacco-growing countries face unique and important challenges to comprehensive, intersectoral tobacco control. These challenges stem from narratives that position tobacco as an important driver of economic growth and development, perpetuated by tobacco interests with close ties to government decision-making. While the global tobacco control movement has enshrined a commitment to alternatives to tobacco growing, there remain numerous obstacles. Tobacco growing is often situated in contexts with limited markets for other agricultural products, limited knowledge and economic resources to pursue alternatives, and/or a structure that favours industry control over the supply chain, all constraining the decision space of farmers. An evidence-informed approach is necessary to address tobacco supply, including growing, processing, manufacturing and trade, in this complex context. This paper reviews the economic, environmental and policy context of tobacco growing with an emphasis on the past decade of empirical work on the political economy of tobacco supply and introduces strategies to pursue alternatives. This analysis debunks many of the arguments used to perpetuate the narrative of tobacco’s prosperity and provides critical insights into the institutional constraints faced by government sectors in pursuing a policy of alternatives.

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“…Regardless of this brief victory, this new legalpolitical phenomenon becomes urgent because it seems to attempt to institutionalize a weakened participatory democratic model, less-inclusive, non-egalitarian, and vertical in the relationship between State and the citizens. It might have implications in the epistemological reinterpretation and recognition of a disbalance in power/rights of legal, political, fiscal, economic, land (Mayer, 2016;Arias et al, 2017), and socially unstable institutional measures towards a weakened family farming setting and limited food security policies (Ortiz et al, 2015;Santos & Vieira, 2018;Niederle et al, 2019). Therefore, the detrimental and antidemocratic operational change proposed by the Provisional Measure No.…”

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Increased vulnerability of family farming in the context of a weakened FNS agenda due to austerity measures in Brazil

Costa

2021

EARN

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<p>SDG goals of ending poverty and achieving Zero Hunger must address the nexus of a transformational shift in the Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) Agenda, integrating more sustainable food systems, territorial development, sustainable infrastructure, fiscal and economic elements to robust social protection schemes. By considering Family Farming government expenditure budget, the slowing and stalled economic growth, and political and fiscal policy developments. We discuss Brazil's high-level government budgetary interventions, the governance and institutional contexts affecting food security as indicators of how aggressive budgetary and institutional measures have negatively impacted the nation's social protection policy environment, resilience, and sustainable development perspectives.</p>

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Agriculture Productivity Growth in Brazil

Cited by 9 publications

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Forest frontiers out of control: The long-term effects of discourses, policies, and markets on conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon

Forest frontiers out of control: The long-term effects of discourses, policies, and markets on conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon

Tobacco farming: overcoming an understated impediment to comprehensive tobacco control

Increased vulnerability of family farming in the context of a weakened FNS agenda due to austerity measures in Brazil

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