Por uma agricultura mais sustentável: práticas de produção responsável em propriedades rurais privadas
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2017-02-24
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Agriculture is the dominant use on Earth’s surface and rural producers are the principal managers of useable lands, but promoting a sustainable agriculture still a challenge. Despite better agriculture practices is an urgent need, there are many barriers and no consensus in the responsible factors to its adoption among farmers. We evaluated hundreds of Brazilian medium to large private industrial rural properties - farms that produces commodities aiming primarily to sell and supported by paid labor. All farms evaluated are supported by NGO Aliança da Terra in the Producing Right platform, a voluntary and non-punitive program to promote better agriculture practices. We evaluated how (1) the characteristics of the Responsible Production practices, (2) the characteristics of the farmer, and (3) the characteristics of the private property affect agriculture responsible production practices adoption. We used primary data. Farmers committed to mandatory Responsible Production practices, even if these practices have high innovation degree and low relationship with productivity, but they executed practices based on finances and shorter planning horizon. Higher market pressure resulted in better environmental practices. Older farmers performed better in social and responsible production practices. Producers with higher schooling executed better social practices. Farmers with larger rural properties and crop producers performed better for sustainable agricultural practices than smaller and livestock producers. Instead of only command and control strategy, we need to create positive incentives to eliminate financial constraints for sustainability, support farmers to be innovators, reduce their uncertainty (political and financial), and eliminate information gap to spread successfully Responsible Production practices.
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PACÍFICO, E. S. Por uma agricultura mais sustentável: práticas de produção responsável em propriedades rurais privadas. 2017. 153 f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Ambientais) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2017.