Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture: Governance, Inclusion, and Innovation

ISBN-13: 9783031298523 / Angielski

Niels Sondergaard; Camila Dias de Sá; Ana Flavia Barros-Platiau

Opis

With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of inclusive and sustainable production practices, as well as technical innovations, this edited volume presents the reader with a nuanced perspective on sustainable future pathways for Brazilian agriculture. In many cases, actors within the agricultural sector stand in a key position to address environmental concerns, which often has generated important breakthroughs and improvement of production practices. Drawing on contributions from authors within a variety of fields, this contribution presents a trans-disciplinary perspective on the problems and pathways through which multi-level interventions can lead to sustainable solutions within the Brazilian agricultural and livestock sector. This book hereby constitutes an informed and timely contribution to the important debates about Brazil’s potential role in confronting environmental problems. More broadly, this volume also sheds light on the process of agricultural transitions in the Global South, and how food security concerns may be reconciled with sustainable production. 

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Contents

 

 

 

 

Introduction: The Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture .................... 1

Niels Søndergaard, Camila Dias de Sá and Ana Flávia Barros Platiau

 

 

Part I       The International Dimension of Sustainability

 

The Shanghai Connection: Governing the Sustainability Impacts of Brazilian Agri-exports to China ........................................................................................................... 17

Niels Søndergaard, Victor Thives and Cristina Inoue

 

Sustainability Governance of Soybean Trade Between Brazil and Europe: The Road Travelled and the Challenges Ahead ………………………………………... 44

Aske S. Bosselmann and Sarah E. N. Dolmer

 

Brazilian Agriculture and the International Political Economy of Climate

Change ……………………………………………………………………………….. 64

Matias A. Franchini, Eduardo Viola and Julia S. Guivant

 

Brazilian Agriculture and the Global Environmental Agenda …………………... 84

Rodrigo C. A. Lima and Fernanda K. Lemos

 

Carbon Markets and the Financing of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Activities ………………………………………………………………….….……... 105

Ronaldo Seroa da Motta

 

 

Part II     Technical Challenges and Innovation

 

Effects of Land Use Changes on Soil Biodiversity Conservation ……………….  121

Mercedes M. C. Bustamante, Francisco Calaça, Vinicius T. Pompermaier,

Maria Regina S. S. Silva and Rafaella Silveira

 

The Brazilian Way of Farming: Potential and Challenges to Agricultural Decarbonization…………………………………………………………………….  143

Camila D. de Sá, Niels Søndergaard, Luiz G. Barioni and Renato C. Camargo

 

Crop-Livestock-Forest Integration Systems as a Sustainable Production

Strategy in Brazil …………………………………………………………………... 162

Renato de A. R. Rodrigues, Isabel G. M. Ferreira, Júlia G. da Silveira,

Jacqueline J. N. da Silva, Felipe M. Santos and Marcela C. G. da Conceição

 

Land Sparing and Sustainable Intensification within the Livestock Sector …… 182

Marcelo C. C. Stabile, Leila Harfuch, Wilton L. da Silva, Victor R. M. Couto and Gabriela Mota da Cruz

 

Green Digitalization? Agriculture 4.0 and Slow Environmental Governance

in Brazil …………………………………………………………………...…...…… 208

Vinícius Mendes and Eduardo Viola

 

 

Part III    The Challenge of Inclusion

 

The (Un)Feasibility of Inclusive Rural Development in Brazil ……….…...……. 228

Zander Navarro and Maria Thereza M. Pedroso

 

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Brazilian Agriculture: Constraints and Opportunities to Sustainability ……………………….…...…… 249

Carolina Pinheiro

 

Bioeconomy: Brazilian Potential and Challenges …...………………….…...…… 272

Claudia C. König and Vanessa C. Pinsky

 

 

Part IV    Public Governance

 

The Brazilian Forest Code: The Challenges of Legal Implementation …....…… 294

Joana Chiavari, Cristina L. Lopes and Lourdes de A. Machado

 

Brazilian Biofuel Governance: The Case of Brazilian Ethanol

and Renovabio ……………………………………………………………………… 314

Luciano Rodrigues and Leandro Gilio

 

Land Governance: Getting the Incentives Right …………………………....…… 338

Paulo Barreto and Brenda Brito

 

 

Part V     Private Governance

 

Jurisdictional and Landscapes Approaches to Sustainability: Principles and Experiences from the Field in Brazil …………...…………………………....…… 370

Fernando Sampaio

 

Tracing and Monitoring to Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains

in Brazil ……………………………………….….…………………………....…… 398

André M. Nassar and Taciano M. Custódio

 

Private governance: Multistakeholder Initiatives and Moratoriums …………... 426

André L. Guimarães, Marcelo C. C. Stabile and Paulo Moutinho

 

O autorze

Niels Søndergaard: Assistant professor in international relations at the University of Brasília, Brazil. Dr. Søndergaard has been working as a senior research fellow with Insper Agro Global (2020/2022) and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for International Relations at the University of Brasilia (2018/2020). He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Brasilia, Brazil (2018), a Masters in Global Studies with major in Political Science from the University of Lund, Sweden (2014), and Bachelor in Global Studies and International Development from the University of Roskilde, Denmark (2011). In 2019, his thesis on Brazilian state-agribusiness relations within a foreign policy perspective was awarded the price for the best thesis defended in 2018 by the Brazilian Association for International Relations. His research focuses on agricultural production, trade, and governance.

Camila Dias de Sá: Senior research fellow at the Global Agribusiness Center at Insper, Sao Paulo. Previously she has worked as a consultant to a diverse range of agribusiness companies as well as for Brazilian government agencies while occupying positions as lecturer in business and economic schools. Dr. Sá holds a PhD (2019) and a Masters (2010) in Business Administration/Economics of Organizations from the Unversity of São Paulo and a Bachelor (2002) in Agronomy from Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) also from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her research focuses on institutions and organizations within the scope of agricultural production, sustainability, and trade.

Ana Flávia Granja e Barros-Platiau: Associate professor in international relations at the University of Brasília (UnB), and the Superior Defense College (ESD), both in Brazil. She is the current director of the Brasilia Research Centre for Earth System Governance Network,  hosted by the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development at the Department of Geosciences, Utrecht University  in the Netherlands. She has been working on research agendas encompaasing issues such as sustainability, global governance and Brazil for decades. She holds a phd and master's degree in international relations from the University of Paris 1, Sorbonne-Panthéon.