This study aimed to discuss environmental sustainability issues of the Brazilian agricultural sector, regarding aspects such as the impacts of the sector's growth on the natural environment, current policies and strategies needed to mitigate these impacts. Historically, agricultural policies...

This study is intended to verify the effects of recent regulatory changes in the National School Feeding Program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar - PNAE), in particular the insertion of agriculture as a public to be prioritized in the purchase of food, on its potential contribution to...

The present Discussion Paper aims to reveal the conception of the idea of sustainable urban development, and how this term can serve geopolitical interests related to maintaining the uneven and combined development discourse on a global and national scale. To this purpose, an etymological and...

This study analyses ten strategic indicators analyzed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the greater purpose of analyzing Brazil's performance compared to OECD member countries. The indicators analyzed were: i) water withdrawals; ii) wastewater treatment;...

This study presents a comparative indicator of production sustainability in agriculture. Faced with the growing world demand for food and considering the centrality of the main producing and exporting countries of agricultural products in the world, it is important to identify the economies that...