Sustainable Agriculture: An Assessment of Brazil’s Family Farm Programmes in Scaling up Agroecological Food Production

Agroecological methods of agricultural production have been shown to be an ecologically sustainable and socially and economically viable way to support national food systems (Altieri and Toledo, 2011; IAASTD, 2008). When the prices of key staple crops more than doubled during the 2008 food crisis, i...

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Autores: McKay, Ben, Nehring, Ryan
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Recursos:Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da IPEA (RCIpea)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ipea.gov.br:11058/15755
Acesso em linha:https://repositorio.ipea.gov.br/handle/11058/15755
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Sustainable Agriculture: An Assessment of Brazil’s Family Farm Programmes in Scaling up Agroecological Food Production
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Resumo:Agroecological methods of agricultural production have been shown to be an ecologically sustainable and socially and economically viable way to support national food systems (Altieri and Toledo, 2011; IAASTD, 2008). When the prices of key staple crops more than doubled during the 2008 food crisis, it became apparent that alternatives to the current global food system are desperately needed. The current global food system—from seed to supermarket—has become increasingly monopolised by agri-food supply chains. This has led to overproduction of food while simultaneously leaving roughly 925 million people hungry worldwide, and has also contributed to severe environmental degradation and malnutrition (IAASTD, 2008). (…)

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