“…For this reason, Brazil is considered one of the biggest food producers at the global level (Contini, 2010). However, Reis et al (2016) report that soybean production in the country faces enormous challenges, including scarcity of transportation logistics and storage capacity (Lipinski et al, 2013), long distances between the production areas and the ports used for export (Vilhena & Ribeiro, 2015;Reis et al, 2016), strong dependence on imported fertilizers (Teixeira et al, 2013;van Tongeren et al, 2014;Raucci et al, 2015), environmental, social, and economic issues (Zhu & Sarkis, 2004;Cavalett & Ortega, 2009;Soares, 2016;Toloi et al, 2018).…”