What Drives Intensification of Land Use at Agricultural Frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game

Nascimento, Nathália; West, Thales A. P.; Börner, Jan; Ometto, Jean Pierre

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“…Tractors and other machinery are used to introduce plantations in illegally deforested areas [52], and fertilisers make planting soybean in new agricultural frontiers viable [53]. Ultimately, these are business sectors profiting from the expansion of agricultural frontiers [54].…”

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Transparency in Global Agribusiness: Transforming Brazil’s Soybean Supply Chain Based on Companies’ Accountability

Medina

Thomé

2021

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Background: Although agri-food supply chains have become fundamental for food security throughout the world, some are associated with negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This study explores the possibilities of transforming the governance in Brazil’s soybean supply chain based on stakeholders’ accountability. Methods: We used secondary data from companies’ reports and statistical yearbooks to identify key stakeholders in the soybean supply chain as well as to explore trade-offs between reducing farming expansion into new agricultural frontiers and increasing investments in agro-industrial sectors. Results: The results reveal that at the global level, multinational corporations along with domestic groups should be held accountable for improving the governance of the soybean supply chain in Brazil since foreign multinationals control 65.4% of it. At the domestic level, losses in Brazil’s farming sector can either be offset by an 11% or 5.2% market share increase in the trading segment or in the whole supply chain, respectively, since Brazilian groups control 93.4% of the farming sector but only 7.1% of the agro-industrial sectors. Conclusions: Global accountability and domestic trade-offs are fundamental for transforming governance in global agri-food supply chains. They serve as a means for overcoming the current strategy of expansion into new farming frontiers.

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Transparency in Global Agribusiness: Transforming Brazil’s Soybean Supply Chain Based on Companies’ Accountability

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2021

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“…Sin embargo, el problema es mucho más complejo. Para Salizzi (2020;Damien et al, 2017;Nascimento et al, 2019), los productores agrícolas locales se ven afectados por las iniciativas de regulación de uso de tierras, al no poder utilizar sus propias tierras para la siembra de productos que sirven para su propia subsistencia.…”

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Deforestación y derecho de titulación territorial en las comunidades nativas

2022

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El presente artículo busca explorar el estado del arte del avance de la deforestación y derecho de titulación territorial en las comunidades nativas. Mediante una revisión sistemática de la literatura se recogieron 11 artículos publicados en los últimos cinco años en territorio amazónico para explorar sus principales características, metodología y hallazgos. La gran mayoría de artículos sobre el tema fueron encontrados en Dialnet y Ebsco, siendo publicados en el 2018 y el 2020 dentro de territorio brasileño con una metodología predominantemente mixta y cualitativa mediante el uso de revisión sistemática. Entre los principales hallazgos se encuentra que los pueblos indígenas necesitan la titulación para ejercer su derecho a cuidar su tierra y que la situación política amenaza con hacer retroceder los avances contra la deforestación.

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“…Observing and recording the risk decision-making process in different scenarios may be a good way to visualize and analyse the trade-offs between urban development and DRR. Serious games, generally involving the use of scenarios for players to make decisions [20], are considered a participatory method and are used to understand the stakeholders' reactions to different scenarios, and to teach them the impact of adaptation [21]. Many studies in recent years have proven that serious games are an effective tool for environmental education or EfS in many fields such as such as water management [22], marine conservation [23], and urban planning, environmental design, etc.…”

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Playing for a Resilient Future: A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexity of the Interaction among Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and Urban Development

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Jiang

2021

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Urban development and disaster risk are deeply linked, especially now when we are facing increasingly frequent climate change. Hence, knowledge of the potential trade-offs between urban development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) may have potential to build a resilient and sustainable future. The objectives of this study are (1) to present education for a sustainability (EfS) program and to evaluate its performance: a serious game of knowledge communication for the interactions among climate change, disaster risk, and urban development; (2) to explore factors that will influence the players’ decision making in the trade-offs between urban development and DRR under an urbanization background through counterfactual scenarios constructed by a series of serious games. The Yudai Trench, once a critical component of the urban green infrastructure of ancient Guangzhou, has disappeared under rapid urban expansion, leaving the city exposed to environmental hazards caused by climate change. Is the disappearance of the Yudai Trench an inevitable event in the progress of urbanization? To answer this question, the study constructed counterfactual scenarios by recuring the historical progress through the same serious game. Gameplay involved the players’ decision making with associated impacts on the urbanization progress and the DRR in diverse climate hazard scenarios. For this study, 107 undergraduates from related majors, who are also would-be policymakers, were selected as players. The methodology combined questionnaire survey and participant observation complemented by interviews. The t-test results indicated that undergraduates’ knowledge levels had significant positive changes after the end of the serious game. Importantly, the results showed that the knowledge could potentially contribute to the players’ decision-making process for DRR by assisting them in making pre-decision. Beside this knowledge, the results expanded the range of influencing factors and solutions reported by previous literature on DRR under an urbanization background against climate hazards by constructing counterfactual scenarios, e.g., higher economic levels and policy incentives. In this study, the serious game was evaluated as an innovative communication and the EfS method in counterfactual scenarios. These findings of the study provide a reference for future practice, policymaking, and decision making so as to help harness lessons learned from unrealized environmental hazards to support a more resilient future through informed policies and plans.

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What Drives Intensification of Land Use at Agricultural Frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game

Cited by 23 publications

References 51 publications

Transparency in Global Agribusiness: Transforming Brazil’s Soybean Supply Chain Based on Companies’ Accountability

Transparency in Global Agribusiness: Transforming Brazil’s Soybean Supply Chain Based on Companies’ Accountability

Deforestación y derecho de titulación territorial en las comunidades nativas

Playing for a Resilient Future: A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexity of the Interaction among Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and Urban Development

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