“Will Brazil's ethanol ambitions undermine its agrarian reform goals? A study of social perspectives using Q-method”

Frate, Cláudio Albuquerque; Brannstrom, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.10.007

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“…Research on family farmer interactions with the sugar mills concerning land use, sustainability, and income, among other issues, can help form the basis for policy-making. For example, Frate and Brannstrom (2015), using the Q method, explored tensions between agrarian reform settlements -specifically with respect to food security and safety and sugarcane mills. The authors revealed patterns of views among diverse key actors, views that complicate the notion that tensions fall along dichotomous small-scale versus agribusiness-oriented interests.…”

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Using an analytic hierarchy process approach to prioritize public policies addressing family farming in Brazil

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In Brazil, some see intensive, large-scale production of sugarcane-based ethanol, based on a model of capital and land concentration, as a threat to the survival of family farming. Family farmers are increasingly under pressure to sell or rent land to mills where sugarcane monoculture is expanding. In this context, the government is working to formulate or change public policies in order to support farmer livelihoods in sugarcane growing regions. The present study is based on research conducted in the municipality of Ipiranga de Goiás, Goiás State, Brazil. It employs the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method, with participation of stakeholders at federal, state and municipal levels, to support public policy decision-making addressing family farming. The stakeholders prioritize environmental and economic benefits as the most important criteria requiring the attention of policy makers. Also, stakeholders agree that diversification of production is the most appropriate alternative for strengthening family farming. The AHP approach can be the starting point in the formulation of public policies. The approach helps ensure transparency, and it purposefully includes family farmer points of view. Policies derived from this process, therefore, may have a higher likelihood of being supported and accepted by farmers.Keywords: Analytic hierarchy process, Decision-making, Multiple stakeholders, Family farming, Sugarcane. Highlights-We assess policy priorities of family farmers in an area of sugarcane expansion.-We use the analytic hierarchy process with participation of multiple stakeholders.-A case study presents a practical application of the method.-Public policies addressing family farming should focus on diversification of production.-Sensitivity analysis demonstrates robustness of results.

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Using an analytic hierarchy process approach to prioritize public policies addressing family farming in Brazil

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“…As carbon storage is higher in these areas than in pastures, indirect effects significantly limit the CO 2 savings potential of sugarcane ethanol 19 , 20 and endanger a variety of forest ecosystem services 21 , 22 . Furthermore, increasing competition for arable land reveals negative impacts on small-scale family agriculture and food security 23 , 24 .…”

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Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production

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Biofuels are currently the only available bulk renewable fuel. They have, however, limited expansion potential due to high land requirements and associated risks for biodiversity, food security, and land conflicts. We therefore propose to increase output from ethanol refineries in a land-neutral methanol pathway: surplus CO2-streams from fermentation are combined with H2 from renewably powered electrolysis to synthesize methanol. We illustrate this pathway with the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol industry using a spatio-temporal model. The fuel output of existing ethanol generation facilities can be increased by 43%–49% or ~100 TWh without using additional land. This amount is sufficient to cover projected growth in Brazilian biofuel demand in 2030. We identify a trade-off between renewable energy generation technologies: wind power requires the least amount of land whereas a mix of wind and solar costs the least. In the cheapest scenario, green methanol is competitive to fossil methanol at an average carbon price of 95€ tCO2−1.

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“…It has been noted, however, that this well-being is contributing to an increase in land price (Palludeto et al, 2018), especially in Brazil, where researchers have studied the impacts of sugarcane expansion on small farmers who are not protected by the public policies and end up losing control of their lands, and are transformed to cheap labour for the mills (Petrini et al, 2017;Frate et al, 2015).…”

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What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review

Chami¹,

Daccache²,

Moujabber³

2020

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Since the 1950s sugarcane production has grown rapidly from less than 0.5 billion tonnes in the late 50s to reach over 1.9 billion tonnes in 2012 on about 27 million hectares of agricultural land. This expansion has been boosted by the high demand for bioethanol promoted as a sustainable bioenergy source which accounted in 2010 for the biggest share of the global biofuel market. Despite its benefits, the scientific debate on sugar is growing especially that counterarguments are so many, including negative impacts on different interacting ecosystems and human well-being, e.g. bigger stress on land and water resources, environmental externalities on air, a harmful impact on the biodiversity and endemic species, negative environmental externalities, health, and socio-economic aspects. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) of the impacts of sugarcane production on these different ecosystems employing the ecosystem services framework for its acceptance by policy-makers. The references included for the SR were 163 and results showed that the majority of the studies are from Brazil, Australia, South Africa and the USA (≈ 75% of the literature), most of them were from peer-reviewed journals (85%), and most of the case studies adopted a quantitative research approach (93%). The literature assessed showed that sugarcane, like all agro-systems, depends on the practices and techniques to transform negative impacts into positive externalities on ecosystems and human well-being. However, the literature studied failed to include the inter-linkage in sugarcane production impacts’ and therefore to evaluate the related ecosystem services with respect to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework to account for existing trade-offs. Therefore, the findings are addressed to the scientific community and decision-maker for an intensification of interdisciplinary and integrated research based on the MA framework to cover all ecosystem services, for sustainable development of the sugarcane sector.

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“Will Brazil's ethanol ambitions undermine its agrarian reform goals? A study of social perspectives using Q-method”

Cited by 17 publications

References 28 publications

Using an analytic hierarchy process approach to prioritize public policies addressing family farming in Brazil

Using an analytic hierarchy process approach to prioritize public policies addressing family farming in Brazil

Pathway to a land-neutral expansion of Brazilian renewable fuel production

What are the Impacts of Sugarcane Production on Ecosystem Services? A Review

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