The pursuit of global food security and agricultural sustainability, the dual aim of the second
sustainable development goal (SDG-2), requires urgent and concerted action from …

Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30% of the world's soy
and 15% of its beef by 2013–yet historically much of that growth has come at the expense of …

Simple Summary Agriculture worldwide has been challenged by how to grow sustainably to
feed a rising population without depleting natural resources. This is also the case in Brazil …

This article analyzes the critical geopolitics of knowledge production in Brazil during the 20th
century. It offers a critical appraisal of recent calls to decolonize political geography by …

Technology adoption has contributed to develo** efficient food production throughout the
history of modern agriculture. In the last decades, several technologies have positively …

Scholars have often applied the concept of boundary work and its conceptual progeny to
explain how science, policy, and practice collaborate to introduce change into agrifood …

Quilombos are settlements originally founded by Africans and African descendants
(Quilombolas) in remote parts of Brazil to escape slavery. Due to individual histories …

Agricultural intensification, and particularly double crop**, has been suggested as a
practical strategy to reconcile biofuel feedstock production with other land-use priorities …

Despite the natural spatial variability, cropland soils are subject to many interventions that
can lead to alterations of soil functioning. As the cropland expansion took place in Brazil the …

The study analyses how food regime transformations in the late 20th century led to a
profound restructuring of state–agribusiness relations in Brazil and the definition of a joint …