Cerrado, Revolução Verde E a Evolução No Consumo De Agrotóxicos

Dutra, Rodrigo Marciel Soares; Souza, Murilo Mendonça Oliveira de

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“…The sociocultural diversity culminates in valuable traditional knowledge especially those inherent to the various uses of the Cerrado flora. This knowledge about the uses of plants is valued by ethnobotanical science and supports consistent arguments for the conservation of the Cerrado in the process of economic development (Silva & Peixoto, 2013;Camargo et al, 2014;Bicalho & Miranda, 2015;Dutra & Souza, 2017;Pitta & Vega, 2017;Porto-Gonçalves, 2019).…”

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“…The Cerrado is a Brazilian phytogeographic domain of great importance for its extension, ecological diversity, carbon stocks and hydrological function. Added to this is the presence of a sociocultural diversity consisting of indigenous communities, quilombolas and small agroextractivist producers (Silva & Peixoto, 2013;Camargo et al, 2014;Bicalho & Miranda, 2015;Dutra & Souza, 2017;Pitta & Vega, 2017;Porto-Gonçalves, 2019).…”

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Medicinal plants and their popular use in Boa Esperança Settlement, Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil

Guimarães¹,

Morais²,

Oliveira³

2022

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The present study showed medicinal plants and their popular use in the rural settlement Boa Esperança, in Piracanjuba, GO, Brazil. Data were collected from November 2017 to February 2018. A total of 176 species (mostly native) were sampled with the predominance of use to treat respiratory, gastrointestinal problems, kidney stones and various types of infections. The species with the highest number of informations were Dilodendron bipinnatumRadlk.; Morussp.; Pterodon emarginatusVogel; Qualea grandifloraMart. andCochlospermum regium(Mart. ex Schrank) Pilg. With the exception of C. regium, the others species had the maximum use agreement value. The study showed a high richness of species used by settlers. The dissemination of this knowledge of medicinal plants, with an emphasis on native plants, can assist in strengthening the cultural knowledge ofthe local community, encouraging the environmental conservation of various medicinal species used in the region.

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Medicinal plants and their popular use in Boa Esperança Settlement, Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil

Guimarães¹,

Morais²,

Oliveira³

2022

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“…Half of its native vegetation had disappeared by 2009 (MMA and IBAMA 2011). Soil degradation and depletion of water basins are widespread problems, moving the agricultural frontier further north in a relentless search for high-yielding conditions (Borges and Almeida 2009;Françoso et al 2015;Pearce 2011;Dutra and de Souza 2018). Land and income inequalities are high, and land and natural resource-related conflicts and violence are intense in frontier zones, particularly in the area known as Matopiba, which covers the Cerrado portions of four Brazilian states (Favareto et al 2019;Sauer and Cabral 2022;Sauer et al 2021).…”

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Connecting Food Inequities Through Relational Territories

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Bellwood-Howard²,

Cabral³

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This paper explores how food inequities manifest at a territorial level, and how food territories are experienced, understood, and navigated by stakeholders to address those inequities. We interpret ‘food territory’ as a relational and transcalar concept, connected through geography, culture, history, and governance. We develop our exploration through four empirical cases: (i) the Cerrado, a disputed Brazilian territory that has been framed and reframed as a place for industrial production of global commodities, to the detriment of local communities and nature; (ii) urban agroecology networks seeking space and recognition to enable food production in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (iii) informal food networks forming a complex web of intersecting local and global supply chains in Worcester, a secondary South African city; and (iv) periodic food markets in Ghana that synchronise trade systems across space and time to provide limited profit-making opportunities, but nonetheless accessible livelihood options, for poorer people. Examining these four cases, we identify commonalities and differences between them, in terms of the nature of their inequities and how different territories are connected on wider scales. We discuss how territories are perceived and experienced differently by different people and groups. We argue that a territorial perspective offers more than a useful lens to map how food inequities are experienced and interconnected; it also offers a tool for action.

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“…In this report, the Brazilian model is put forward as a success story with the potential to guide Africa’s quest for a Green Revolution across the Guinea Savannah belt. Yet this success story has been disputed on many grounds, including: the detrimental environmental impact of soybean specialization and agrochemical intensification (Dutra & de Souza, 2018; Fearnside, 2001); land grabbing and wealth concentration (Borras et al, 2012; Clements & Fernandes, 2013); loss of biodiversity (Françoso et al, 2015) and of equally diverse sociocultural practices and identities of rural territories (Borges & Almeida, 2009).…”

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Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory

Cabral

2021

Development Policy Review

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Motivation The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa, is well known for incorporating the Cerrado into Brazil’s modern agriculture through its discoveries of how to improve infertile soils and to develop soybean seeds adapted to the tropics. Known as the Tropical Revolution, Brazil’s own Green Revolution, this past episode continues to define Embrapa’s identity and Brazil’s agricultural science and technology, reinforcing a view of agricultural development while neglecting alternatives. Purpose This article seeks to understand how Embrapa has carved its name in Brazil’s agricultural history, creating a powerful national brand with global recognition. It explores what constitutes Embrapa’s “organizational heritage,” how this has been built within the organization and to what effect. Approach and methods To commemorate Embrapa’s 40th anniversary in 2014, an official history (“Memória Embrapa”) was written, focusing on the success of the organization and the reasons for this. This source has been reviewed, then combined with evidence from interviews with 29 Embrapa researchers about the strengths and shortcomings of organizational heritage. Findings Embrapa’s story of success focuses on selected technological breakthroughs, highly trained and motivated scientists, and a sense of mission towards Brazilian society. This omits, however, some successes, challenges and alternative approaches to research that do not fit well with the simplified history. Three such omissions stand out: (1) the official history barely mentions the concerns about the environmental and social impacts of the spread of large‐scale farming—which much of Embrapa’s research had served; (2) Embrapa created a national seed bank, to which indigenous groups demanded access since they had conserved much of the genetic material in the bank (policy was changed to allow indigenous groups access and to promote a dialogue between the scientists and the farmers); and (3), in similar vein, some scientists in Embrapa endeavour to engage with local expertise, with ethnoscience, to enrich and broaden the research. Policy implications Rooting Embrapa’s brand in history makes the narrative persistent and hard to challenge. This risks creating a simplified, monolithic narrative about Embrapa and Brazilian agriculture that feeds technocratic fixations with high science and transfer of technology as the dominant pathway to agricultural development and food security. This may have been considered necessary in the 1970s, but increasingly the agricultural research agenda must include environmental sustainability and conservation of agricultural biodiversity, climate change, social fairness and a respectful engagement with different ways of researching, including learning from the longstanding practices of farmers.

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Cerrado, Revolução Verde E a Evolução No Consumo De Agrotóxicos

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Medicinal plants and their popular use in Boa Esperança Settlement, Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil

Medicinal plants and their popular use in Boa Esperança Settlement, Piracanjuba, Goiás, Brazil

Connecting Food Inequities Through Relational Territories

Embrapa and the construction of scientific heritage in Brazilian agriculture: Sowing memory

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