Identification of grain areas replaced by sugarcane and analysis of the relationship with family farming production in the state of Goiás

Petrini, María Angélica; Rocha, Jansle Vieira

doi:10.1590/s0100-69162014000600023

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“…Tocantins is a region of cropland expansion and also has China as its major soybean buyer. Both states have pasturelands as their major land use, and Goiás has the second largest sugarcane planted area after São Paulo state, which eventually has replaced soybean planted areas in recent years [17].…”

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The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

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Batistella

Dou

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Abstract:The global food market makes international players intrinsically connected through the flow of commodities, demand, production, and consumption. Local decisions, such as new economic policies or dietary shifts, can foster changes in coupled human-natural systems across long distances. Understanding the causes and effects of these changes is essential for agricultural-export countries, such as Brazil. Since 2000, Brazil has led the expansion of soybean planted area-19 million hectares, or 47.5% of the world's increase. Soybean is among the major crop commodities traded globally. We use the telecoupling framework to analyze (i) the international trade dynamics between Brazil and China as the cause of the increased production of Brazilian soybean since 2000; (ii) and the cascading effects of the Sino-Brazilian telecoupled soybean system for Brazilian maize production and exports, with attention to consequences on domestic prices, availability, and risks associated with climatic extreme events. Census-based data at state and county levels, policy analysis, and interviews with producers and stakeholders guided our methodological approach. We identified that the Brazilian soybean production decreased maize single crop production and accelerated maize as a second crop following soybean, a practice that makes farmers more vulnerable to precipitation anomalies (e.g., rainfall shortage). In addition, the two-crop system of soybean/maize pressures the Brazilian maize market when unexpected events such as extreme droughts strike and when this results in a failed maize harvest in the second crop, most of which is for domestic consumption rather than export. Our study suggests the need to incorporate the telecoupling framework in land use decision-making and understanding landscape changes.

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The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

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Batistella

Dou

et al. 2017

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“…Piracicaba (São Paulo state) is a traditional sugarcane region with probable reduction of sugarcane cultivation area due to mechanization (Guedes et al 2015). Southwest of Goiás is an agricultural region where sugarcane expansion occurs rapidly (Nassar et al 2008;Petrini and Rocha 2014). Finally, in Pontal do Paranapanema (São Paulo state) sugarcane is expanding with land ownership conflicts.…”

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Potential impacts on local quality of life due to sugarcane expansion: a case study based on panel data analysis

Machado

Picoli²,

João

2016

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Agribusiness participation in Brazil generates investments in rural infrastructure and employment, with direct effects on local quality of life. In this sense, government policies to support the production of ethanol from sugarcane and to promote bioelectricity from bagasse production have made Brazil a country of world leadership in this field. This paper reports an assessment of socioeconomic impacts due to sugarcane production in three regions in Brazil (Piracicaba, Presidente Prudente and Southwest Goiás). Local quality of life is defined as five dimensions: income and inequality, education, infrastructure, health and general development, analysed using panel data modelling, with variables that could explain differences in development due to local characteristics, including sugarcane activity. Presidente Prudente has the highest levels of progress in education, poverty, infrastructure and general development indicators. The models indicate that participation of sugarcane has positive impacts on the indicators of the microregion. In case of Piracicaba microregion, in two models (''L-Theil'' and ''Illiteracy rate'') indicators related with sugarcane sector are significant explanatory variables, contributing for better indicators. Finally, Southwest Goias-where sugarcane activity develops later-is the single microregion in which the adjusted models have no significant explanatory variables related to sugarcane sector.

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Identification of grain areas replaced by sugarcane and analysis of the relationship with family farming production in the state of Goiás

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

Potential impacts on local quality of life due to sugarcane expansion: a case study based on panel data analysis

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