The Food Acquisition Program (PAA) is a public policy that uses the federal government's purchasing power to promote the strengthening of family farming and combat food and nutritional insecurity in Brazil. This text presents an analysis of PAA acquisitions in the period from 2011 to 2019 to...

The purpose of the article is analysis of participatory budgets as a tool for shaping decisions of local communities on the use of public funds. The authors ask the question of whether the current practice of using the participatory budget is actually a growing trend in local government finances...

Family farming produces most of the fresh food consumed in large urban centers. However, its success depends on a variety of public policies, which range from strengthening the means of production to supporting marketing channels. In this article, we conduct a careful bibliometric analysis of...

Planet Earth, with its plethora of natural (im)balances, has a venerable age of 4.54 billion years; the (industrial) imprint placed by the human species on it, considered to be not negligible, counts of just little over two centuries; while the digital/IT&C/virtual existence of man, in what we...

The achievement of short-term energy savings through changes in user consumption behaviour is one of the main directions addressed by the REPowerEU program. This paper investigates the perspective of increasing energy efficiency at the level of domestic consumers in Romania by adopting energy...

Cities and their populations have suffered from the impacts of accelerated urbanization, with natural disasters, especially involving urban waters. The human and material losses witnessed in recent years, in Brazil and in the world, call attention to the importance of the transition to more...

This article evaluates the trajectory of foster family care services in Brazil, since its entry into the federal government's select public policy agenda, from the elaboration of the National Plan for Living in Family and Community (2006) which brought, among its objectives, the promotion and...

In spite of the apparent general consensus, both economic theory in abstracto and the political practice in the realm of competition are looked upon from (too) many perspectives. Far from being convergent or even complementary, the “theories” and “policies” are rather contradictory and...

Brazil has become a good example of public policies aimed at combating poverty and fostering rural development, or, in other words, promoting family farming. The country has even 'exported' some of its policies, notably the Programa Bolsa Família and the Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos...

The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper argues that, for research purposes, microdata should be characterised as a public good. The...