Portuguese Abstract: O volume de investimentos governamentais na área de segurança pública, conforme as informações de orçamentos públicos, estão excessivamente elevados, em detrimento de áreas como a saúde pública, cujos valores apresentam-se aquém das necessidades. Faz-se...

The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...

The current dynamics of sharing competences and financial resources exposes the need to remodel and refine intergovernmental relations through processes of coordination and cooperation in order to minimize asymmetries. It is in this context that public consortia have been standing out in the...

The study seeks to analyze the importance of agricultural trade policy in Brazil for economic development, discussing issues such as food security, poverty reduction and inequality, employment creation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change and environmental sustainability. The problem...

In accordance with the Brazilian Forest Legislation, nearly 12.5 million hectares of native vegetation must be restored over the next 20 years in the country. The feasibility of this process will depend on the existence of a supply of seeds and native seedlings with adequate quality, diversity...

The study seeks to analyze the importance of agricultural production in Matopiba, comprising areas in the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, for economic development. The agricultural economic dynamics of Matopiba region becomes central in guiding the decisions of private actors...

The National Policy for Agroecology and Organic Production (Pnapo) was created in 2012 to integrate, articulate and adjust the existing public policies concerning sustainable production of chemical-contaminant-free products. The referred policy combines rural development, conservation of natural...

In 2012, as a result of the Rio+20 Conference of the United Nations (UN), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created, including access to drinking water and basic sanitation (challenge 6 of the SDGs). In Brazil, the semiarid region is the region where achieving the goals of SDG 6 is...

This paper describes and analyzes the trajectory of water and sanitation policies in Brazil, with emphasis on the Union acts on financing and regulation evolution in the sector. The objective is to point the different regulatory forms and models already tried, as well as to highlight the...