The Brazilian Green Revolution

Nehring, Ryan

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102574

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“…Tabela 2 -Resultados da regressão OLS "pooled" no espectro geral entre a produção e a produtividade da soja e milho e a importações de fertilizantes (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021) No caso da soja, Cloreto de Potássio e formulação importados possuem um forte impacto positivo na sua produção. Sobre a sua produtividade, somente os Fosfatos exerceram essa função.…”

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“…Tabela 3 -Resultados da regressão OLS "pooled" no espectro agrupamento entre a produção da soja e milho e a importações de fertilizantes (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021) Na soja, os fosfatos importados afetaram as produções de soja do Centro-Oeste e Sul, enquanto formulação se correlacionou em todas as regiões. Essa observação evidencia a alta dependência do agronegócio brasileiro com os fornecedores de fertilizantes estrangeiros, além de explicar a elevação nos custos agrícolas.…”

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“…Graduado em Ciências Econômicas (2004Econômicas ( -2010 pela Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT). Foi pesquisador CAPES nível mestrado (2010)(2011)(2012) no Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional (PGDR) da UFT com período sanduíche (2011) no Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (CEDEPLAR-UFMG), nível doutorado (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017) no Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional e Agronegócio da Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE) sendo discente visitante (2015) no Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional da Universidade de Blumenau (FURB), e nível pósdoutorado (2017)(2018)(2019)(2020)(2021)(2022) no PGDR/UFT. Foi coordenador do projeto financiado pelo CNPq (Chamada Universal n°407847/2018-9) "As transformações da base econômica nas Regiões Produtivas do Agronegócio no Brasil (2020Brasil ( -2022.…”

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A DEPENDÊNCIA DO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO EM RELAÇÃO AOS FERTILIZANTES IMPORTADOS / The dependence of Brazilian agribusiness on imported fertilizers

Oliveira

Dorner²,

Almeida³

2023

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Em vista dos confrontos armados na Ucrânia e as suas consequências negativas para o agronegócio brasileiro, analisou-se o seu nível de dependência com os fertilizantes importados. Justificou-se o estudo devido à elevação nos custos de produção agrícola e às limitações internas no fornecimento de insumos a montante. Para tanto, empregaram-se dados secundários oficiais e análises gráficas e econométricas que identificaram quais os elementos com maior nível de prioridade para os plantadores de soja e milho do Brasil. Os resultados apontaram que todos os componentes da formulação NPK (nitrogenados, fosfatados e potássios) importados se correlacionam com a produção e produtividade dos grãos em estudo. Nesse contexto, destacou-se a ureia, da qual a Petrobras era um dos fornecedores até 2015. Portanto, a mitigação da subordinação estrangeira no agronegócio brasileiro, passa, a princípio, pela reformulação do setor petroquímico nacional. Abstract: Recent armed conflicts in Ukraine have caused negative effects on Brazilian agribusiness. Fertilizer supply has been strongly dependent on imported products, focus of this research. Increased costs of national food production due to shortage of national fertilizer production were the main motives for this paper. Data was obtained by governmental institutions and submitted to visual and econometric analysis. It was intended to identify which fertilizer inputs have been crucial for soy and maize producers in Brazil. The results suggested that all elements of NPK (nitrogenous, phosphate, and potassium) were correlated to production and profitability. Furthermore, urea is a core input which Petrobras produced until 2015. In conclusion, the mitigation of external dependence on Brazilian agribusiness requires a reframing of national petrochemical industry.

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A DEPENDÊNCIA DO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO EM RELAÇÃO AOS FERTILIZANTES IMPORTADOS / The dependence of Brazilian agribusiness on imported fertilizers

Oliveira

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Almeida³

2023

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“…Finally, other auxiliary institutions also play key roles. For one, universities have long been important players in promoting input-intensive, "green revolution" agriculture in places such as the US and Brazil (Nehring, 2022). Ever more developed relationships between agribusiness and higher learning institutions have had a practical impact (e.g., agronomic R&D) as much as a wider cultural and cognitive one (see Campbell and Dixon, 2009).…”

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“…The formation of strong agribusiness associations that secure political representation (e.g., Brazil's rural caucus) and offer services to soybean growers (e.g., Aprosoja and ABIOVE); established finance flows; key links between private agroindustry and public institutions (e.g., Embrapa) as well as universities doing agronomic research that enables and improves soy production. Unruh, 2000;Sauer, 2019;Nehring, 2022. Source: Adapted from Unruh (2000).…”

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Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

Lopes

Lima

2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Cropland and pasture expansion continues to erase natural ecosystems at a staggering speed globally, notably in the tropics. Conventional policy approaches, usually focused on a particular land-use change driver (e.g., specific commodities) or individual regulations (e.g., the Amazon Soy Moratorium), have consistently failed to achieve sufficient or sustained results. The swift reversal of Brazil’s earlier success in reducing Amazon deforestation – now again accelerated – offers perhaps the most sobering illustration of that. Therefore, this article draws from scholarship on sustainability transitions to propose a more comprehensive systems view of unsustainable land-use patterns. We examine persistent tropical deforestation as a case of “lock-in,” using a transitions lens, and explore its constitutive elements. As a case study, we analyze the situation of Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon, where as much as one-third of that biome’s deforestation takes place. While subject to some specific factors, those places are also enmeshed in a broader setting that is common across the Brazilian Amazon’s deforestation frontier (e.g., infrastructure conditions, market demands, and sociocultural norms). Drawing from document analysis of Brazilian policies and fieldwork in three Land Reform settlements in Pará State, we expose multiple forms of techno-economic, institutional, and socio-cognitive lock-in that together drive deforestation systemically in those settlements. These drivers form a strongly consolidated socio-technical regime around large-scale agriculture that includes material and immaterial factors (e.g., cultural ones), a regime that not only resists change but also – like a vortex – pulls others into it. Escaping deforestation lock-in may thus require outside forces to help local actors destabilize and eventually replace this unsustainable land-use regime. International zero-deforestation efforts offer a starting point, but a transition requires moving beyond piecemeal, incremental change or end-of-pipe approaches and toward concerted, strategic action that addresses multiple of those regime elements in a coordinated way to replace it as a system. We argue that understanding deforestation lock-in is vital for tackling its worrisome persistence and that sustainability transitions theory offers an illuminating, but still underutilized, framework to analyze and eventually overcome unsustainable land use.

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The fascist Green Revolution

Sollai

2023

Plants People Planet

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Societal Impact StatementThe Green Revolution is commonly understood as the dramatic increase in food production in Mexico and India between the 1940s and 1970s due to the spread of new agricultural technologies, especially high‐yielding seed varieties. Beyond this conventional understanding, however, historians are now revealing the occurrence of—and connections between—various Green Revolutions across space and time. This article identifies a “fascist Green Revolution” through the history of agrarian development and scientific wheat breeding in fascist Italy (1922–1943). Through this case study, the article provides new insights into key themes of discussion around the Green Revolution such as the relationship between plant breeding, the environment, food security, and food self‐sufficiency.Summary In 1925, the fascist regime launched the “Battle of Wheat,” a plan of agrarian development aimed at achieving self‐sufficiency in wheat, Italy's main food crop. Key to this project was the replacement of traditional landraces with “elite” semi‐dwarf and early‐maturing wheat cultivars released by Italy's star plant breeder Nazareno Strampelli. Through the historical analysis of Strampelli's breeding program and of the implementation of the fascist “seed replacement” strategy, this article makes the case for viewing the Battle of Wheat as a “fascist Green Revolution.” The article draws on new methods and perspectives developed by the historiography of the Green Revolution. It is grounded on the historical analysis of fascist‐era publications and archival documents produced by Italian crop scientists and agricultural research institutions. While “elite” cultivars spread rapidly in fertile and wealthy northern Italy, they struggled to take hold in the dry and poor Italian South. The article delineates the environmental, social, and economic reasons underpinning this divergence. Focusing in particular on agrarian scientists' approaches to crop improvement in the Italian South, the article shows how this “marginal” region became a key site for the development of scientific counter‐narratives and concrete alternatives to the official fascist strategy of “seed replacement.” The article reveals the co‐existence of multiple approaches over space and time within fascist‐era agrarian science. Through this case study, it provides new elements to analyze key themes in science and agriculture historiography such as the tension between hyper‐modernization and agroecological concerns, centralized and decentralized research, imported technologies and local resources.

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The Brazilian Green Revolution

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

A DEPENDÊNCIA DO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO EM RELAÇÃO AOS FERTILIZANTES IMPORTADOS / The dependence of Brazilian agribusiness on imported fertilizers

A DEPENDÊNCIA DO AGRONEGÓCIO BRASILEIRO EM RELAÇÃO AOS FERTILIZANTES IMPORTADOS / The dependence of Brazilian agribusiness on imported fertilizers

Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

The fascist Green Revolution

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