Sustainability comparison of commercial Brazilian organic and conventional broiler production systems under a 5SENSU model perspective

Nacimento, Rafael Araújo; Luiz, Vitória Toffolo; Mendes, Cecília Mitie Ifuki; Giannetti, Biagio F.; Gameiro, Augusto Hauber

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134297

Cited by 2 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 45 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The economic cost model was developed according to economic theory, considering the total cost as the result of the sum of the variable cost and the fixed cost (total cost = variable cost + fixed cost) and following the scheme proposed by Nacimento et al [29] (Figure 2).…”

Section: Mainstream Economic Cost Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Nacimento,

Canever,

Almeida

et al. 2023

Sustainability

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The contractual relationship between the processing firm and the broiler smallholder presents incessant conflicts of interest and inequality due to technical and economic discrepancies, leading to an undervaluation of the producers’ remuneration. This study aims to deepen the discussion on searching for a more balanced monetary exchange between processing firms and broiler smallholders based on scientific aspects. For this, the emergy theory and its concepts are used while considering a representative broiler production system at Concórdia, Brazil. The results indicate the importance of including cultural information in the emergy-based model calculation, which achieved the highest emergy contribution (~63%; transformity = 1.73 × 108 sej/J) for the broiler smallholder. On the other hand, the cultural information was not sufficient to increase the sustainability of the broiler production system. The results show an imbalance in the monetary exchange between the processing firm and broiler smallholder from both perspectives (the economic and emergy-based ones), which indicates higher values (USD 0.32/broiler and EmUSD 1.62/broiler) than the practiced payment value of USD 0.24/broiler. Evaluating the “(eco)cost” from an emergy-based accounting perspective recognizes that production depends not only on tangible physical resources but also on knowledge, skills and information (“iceberg of value” thinking). Policy and decision makers must therefore consider the promotion of public policies that subside initiatives, including social and environmental welfare programs.

show abstract

Section: Mainstream Economic Cost Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The following supporting information can be downloaded at: https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/su152215780/s1, Table S1. Economic cost calculation models [29]; Table S2. Emergy for storaged culture information of Santa Catarina citizen [25,[33][34][35]; Table S3.…”

Section: Supplementary Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Nacimento,

Canever,

Almeida

et al. 2023

Sustainability

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Nacimento,

Canever,

Almeida

et al. 2023

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The contractual relationship between the processing firm and the broiler smallholder presents incessant conflicts of interest and inequality due to technical and economic discrepancies, leading to an undervaluation of the producers' remuneration. This study aims to deepen the discussions in searching for a more balanced monetary exchange between processing firms and broiler smallholders based on scientific aspects. For this, the Emergy theory and its concepts were used in considering a representative broiler production system at Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. This study suggests the inclusion of cultural information in the Emergy-based model calculation. For the broiler smallholder, cultural information showed the highest Emergy contribution (62.95%; transformity = 1.73 ×10^8). However, only considering cultural information was not sufficient to increase the sustainability of the broiler production system. The results highlight an imbalance of the monetary exchange between agroindustry and broiler smallholder payment for both the economic and Emergy-based payment. Both estimated payments were higher than the practiced payment value (0.24 USD/broiler as well as 0.32 USD/broiler and 1.62 EmUSD/broiler, respectively). Thus, evaluating the “(eco)cost” in Emergy-based accounting recognizes that production depends not only on tangible physical resources but also on knowledge, skills and information (“iceberg of value” thinking). Policy and decision makers must, therefore consider the promotion of public policies that subside initiatives, including social and environmental welfare programmes.

show abstract

Sustainability comparison of commercial Brazilian organic and conventional broiler production systems under a 5SENSU model perspective

Cited by 2 publications

References 45 publications

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Hidden Costs Associated with Smallholder Family-Based Broiler Production: Accounting for the Intangibles

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About