Eric Pierre Sabourin

• PhD and HDR in Anthropology & sociology
• Senior Researcher at French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development

This paper analyzes the importance and role of the reciprocity relationship in education. It presents a review on the mobilization of the principle of reciprocity - in the anthropological but also sociological and economic sense - in educational processes, especially in adult education. The study is divided into three parts. The first part analyzes...

PEASANT SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS : A READING BY THE RECIPROCITY THEORY O livro trata da aplicação da teoria da reciprocidade às transformações das organizações e sociedades camponesas nas suas interações com o Estado e os mercados a partir de estudos de caso na África, Europa, Oceania e na América latina (em particular no Brasil). A primeira pa...

The paper proposes an analysis of the institutionalization of the federal policy of support for family farming in Brazil, based on a socio-historical approach. The first part presents the trajectory of the National Support Program for Family Farming - PRONAF, its origin, the previous mechanisms dedicated to the small rural producer. The second part...

In the climate and land use fields, policy mixes are complex in terms of the levels of governance, actors, and roles. They consist of policy instruments that target different actors and address multiple goals across several policy sectors and levels. The analysis of these complex arrangements extends beyond purely technical efficiency criteria, as...

This article examines the recent processes of dismantling public policies oriented to promote or regulate family farming in Latin America. It addresses two main questions: How and why were these policies dismantled? Drawing on Bauer et al.’s (2012) analytical framework, the article examines the modalities and stages of the process of dismantling fa...

This study sought to shed light on the ability of informal policy networks to establish implementation alternatives and coalitions to resist change and promote new political responses. We examine the determinants and limits of resilience to democratic policy dismantling. Light is shed on the political and cognitive dimensions of the policy process,...

Debates about the effects of covid-19 on the dynamics of food systems abounded in the last years. Initial analyses projected major changes in these dynamics due to, among other things, the digitisation of markets. Based on data collected between 2020 e 2023 by means of direct observations and 64 semi-structured interviews with farmers, rural extens...

A coletânea organizada e coordenada por Silvia Aparecida Zimmermann e Valdemar João Wesz Junior, professores e pesquisadores da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Unila), universidade pioneira e experimental instalada em Foz de Iguaçu, abre perspectivas originais e inovadoras em vários aspectos da produção acadêmica nacional e int...

A referência sistêmica nas questões alimentares é amplamente utilizada para tratar de diferentes escalas espaciais e populacionais, coordenação e co-municação de diferentes atores políticos e estratégias de desenvolvimento, seja o sistema agroalimentar mundial (McMichael, 2016), os sistemas agroali-mentares localizados (Boucher, 2012), os sistemas...

Desde meados dos anos 2010, observou-se um retrocesso em diversas políticas públicas, intensificado após a eleição de Jair Bolsonaro. A literatura tem crescentemente analisado as estratégias de desmonte e os ataques às instituições democráticas, mas há menos foco na resiliência das burocracias estatais, dos atores políticos e do próprio regime polí...

This collective book is the product of the work of a Brazilian and French team involved in a bilateral scientific project entitled "Agrifood systems and public policies: theories and methods for analysing national and international experiences", funded by CAPES (Brazil) and COFECUB (France) for the period 2020 to 2023. The aim of the project is to...

The article introduces the dossier "Food and Food Policies in Cities" organised under the Capes-Cofecub International Cooperation Project, which has as its theme "Agri-food systems and public policies". This dossier seeks to contribute to this debate by shedding light on some of the food problems experienced in urban areas and, equally, on the resp...

The article discusses changes in Brazilian agricultural policies under the Jair Bolsonaro government. It mobilises three categories of analysis: political change, dismantling and deregulation of public policies. After an introduction setting out the problem and the framework for analysis, the text has three sections. The first deals with the disman...

This chapter proposes to examine the emergence and dissemination of regional public policies for Rural Territorial Development –RTD– in Latin America. We hypothesize the existence and spread of a specific Latin American model of RTD policy. The methodology is based on the application of a common matrix analysis of RTD programs policy making in seve...

Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area, worldwide. However, the long-term sustainability of chemical pest control has been increasingly thrown into doubt due to the negative impact on human health, biodiversi...

Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area, worldwide. However, the long-term sustainability of chemical pest control has been increasingly thrown into doubt due to the negative impact on human health, biodiversi...

This paper analyses the importance of reciprocity in the processes and procedures recorded in the management of common resources. First, it examines the role that Elinor Ostrom attributes to the norm of reciprocity in her approach to common property resources. Second, it interprets economic and social relationships in the management of common resou...

Contribuindo para a superação de perspectivas reducionistas nas análises sobre inclusão produtiva rural (IPR), os resultados do projeto mostram que não há caminho único para a inclusão, com um ponto de partida e um de chegada. Os processos bem-sucedidos de IPR são multidimensionais onde, um conjunto de variáveis e interdependências entre dimensões...

O livro aborda reflexões teóricas metodológicas sobre as dinâmicas dos sistemas alimentares a partir de estudos de caso realizados no Brasil, sem a pretensão de ser exaustivo ou de contemplar a diversidade de situações e configurações que o tema e o país apresentam. O livro reúne 33 autores e dez capítulos, organizados em torno de duas grandes temá...

Brazil has developed various public policy instruments and initiatives on adaptation in agriculture given increased climate variability and, in particular, drought, in the semi-arid Northeast. This book examines eleven instruments or devices for adaptation of agriculture to droughts, developed from state or federal levels. The instruments studied...

The semi-arid region of the Northeast represents a strategic case in the context of climate change. Although droughts are chronic events in this region, climate variability is expected to increase, generating a series of socio-economic impacts. Increasingly extreme climate events may compromise the resources and response capacity of societies. This...

Luego de 15 años de experiencia de los gobiernos del Frente Amplio en la implementación de políticas públicas para la agricultura familir en territorio rural, un nuevo gobierno de derecha (neoliberal desde el punto de vista económico y más bien conservador desde el punto de vista moral) irrumpe la trayectoria de la implementación de dicho conjunto...

Este é um texto de cunho metodológico apontando conceitos, aplicações, limites e avanços do uso da noção de ação pública (LASCOUMES; LE GALÈS, 2012) para a análise das políticas de agroecologia e produção orgânica. O texto baseia-se na aplicação de um quadro analítico inspirado no pentágono da ação pública de Lascoumes e Le Galès no Distrito Federa...

The debate concerning the need for significant transformations towards more nutrition oriented, environmentally sustainable and inclusive food systems has generated increased attention towards agroecology in recent years. Literature on this subject has already demonstrated that transitions to agroecology will be context specific, as countries and r...

National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) have been characterized by complex implementation and coordination gaps, related to uneven framings in domestic contexts. This study analyzes these framing processes in Brazil and Colombia by examining the translation of global prescriptions into tangible policy instruments. It combines a policy translation analytic...

The article examines the participation of farmers in the Mesas de Desarrollo Rural (MDRs) established in Uruguay in 2007. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with various stakeholders between 2016-2018 to explore their participation, analyse official documents and do participant observation of meetings. The main findings indicate the adaptabi...

Brazil is one of the few countries that has implemented policies aimed at supporting agroecological transition processes on a national scale. While its experience has caught the attention of the international community interested in building sustainable and healthy food systems, recent literature points to the dismantling of these policies. This ar...

Latin American agroecology proposes the transformation of conventional agrifood systems. It is driven by social movements that have succeeded in forming coalitions that have promoted its public policy integration. These policies involve a range of instruments that are often embedded in programs that also support organic and sustainable agricultural...

This chapter presents partial results from the research project "Rural Organizations and rural organizations and public policies for sustainable development: Governance and management of governance and natural resource management in Brazil and Indonesia "79. The study has two axes: to characterize the perceptions and appropriations of the notion of...

During the period between the late 1990s and the late 2010s, Brazil was a veritable laboratory for experimenting with and implementing public development policies, particularly in the social, agri-food and agri-environmental fields (Tonneau and Sabourin, 2007; Leite et al., 2005; Grisa and Schneider, 2015). Paradoxically, the years 2011-2021 corres...

The article discusses the permanence of clientelistic practices and their tensions with the participatory approach adopted within the framework of the Brazilian public policy of rural territorial development. It examines, in particular, the case of local implementation of the National Program of Territorial Development. The results come from the st...

This text does not intend to account for the complexity and breadth of this issue at the level of Brazil, much less Mercosur. It is neither to open nor to close the debate, but only to share some partial reflections on the theoretical and methodological approach to the processes of dismantling public policies in Latin America. Since the end of 2018...

Abstract Family farming represents one of the main social and economic groups in northern Mato Grosso. Understanding the interaction between public policies and local and regional dynamics that affect this economic sector is of fundamental importance to identify the gaps and problems of political and operational order that hinder the development of...

IBGE has released the final data from the 2017 Agricultural and Livestock Census online online at SIDRA (System for Automatic Data Retrieval), the largest of statistics on rural spaces and Brazilian agriculture. The Census brings family farming (FA) and non-family farming (NFA) data, which can be that can be exploited in scientific analyses and in...

The governance of complex policy issues such as food security, climate change, global health, and migration often calls for integrative approaches, as progressing in one goal may result in either synergies or tradeoffs in others. A large body of literature has addressed concerns regarding the multiple combinations of policy instruments, cross-secto...

The governance of complex policy issues such as food security, climate change, global health, and migration often calls for integrative approaches, as progressing in one goal may result in either synergies or tradeoffs in others. A large body of literature has addressed concerns regarding the multiple combinations of policy instruments, cross-secto...

Este documento metodológico tiene por objetivo servir de marco orientador para las acciones de apoyo al escalamiento de experiencias de buenas prácticas innovadoras de adaptación al cambio climático (CC) en Sistemas territoriales de agricultura familiar (STAF) de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), durante la ejecución del proyecto Innova-AF, ejecuta...

Cette section thématique est organisée autour des développements récents des politiques publiques pour le milieu rural brésilien. La proposition du dossier considère en particulier celles liées aux questions agraires, alimentaires et agro-environnementales, ainsi que les programmes gouvernementaux différenciés pour aider des secteurs spécifiques, c...

Desde a Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre as Mudanças Climáticas de 2010, realizada em Cancún, os governos ao redor do mundo têm instituído pla- nos nacionais de adaptação. No entanto, esta agenda evidencia uma série de desa- fios à gestão pública. Primeiro, requer a incorporação de projeções climáticas à formulação das políticas públicas, porém...

The book examines various public policy instruments and public action initiatives on adaptation of agriculture in the face of increased climate variability and in particular drought in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast. The book brings together thirteen contributions. Ten instruments or devices of public action for adaptation of agriculture to dro...

Introdução Diversos eventos climáticos extremos observados nos últimos anos contribuíram para atrair a atenção da opinião pública na América Latina sobre a necessidade de adaptação ao aumento da variabilidade climática. O tema, então, entrou na agenda de grande parte dos governos da região. No Brasil, as políticas de clima têm sido influenciadas pe...

L’article synthétise les principaux résultats et publications de deux projets de recherche conduits par le CIRAD et le Centre du Développement Durable de l’Université de Brasilia dans une dizaine de municipalités de la zone semi-aride de Petrolina (Etat de Pernambuco) et Juazeiro (Etat de Bahia) dans la vallée du fleuve São Francisco. La méthodolo...

Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for a diversity of policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the subn...

Latin American agroecology proposes the transformation of conventional agrifood systems. It is driven by social movements that have succeeded in forming coalitions that have promoted its public policy integration. These policies involve a range of instruments that are often embedded in programs that also support organic and sustainable agricultural...

Esse texto não pretende dar conta da complexidade e da amplitude dessa questão a nível do Brasil e muito menos da América Latina. O objetivo da minha apresentação é compartilhar algumas reflexões parciais sobre a abordagem teórica e metodológica dos processos de desmonte de políticas públicas rurais na América Latina, a partir dos ensinamentos das...

The governance of several cross-cutting challenges, such as food security, climate change, and sustainable development, calls for integrative policy approaches. However, efforts to better theorize the drivers of integration beyond listing explanatory factors remain weak. Viewing integration as a process of policy change for dealing with complex pro...

O Brasil é um dos poucos países que implementou, em escala nacional, políticas públicas especificamente voltadas a apoiar processos de transição agroecológica. Atualmente, ao mesmo tempo em que sua experiência tem chamado a atenção da comunidade internacional interessada na construção de sistemas alimentares sustentáveis e saudáveis, a literatura a...

O desmonte de políticas públicas enquadra-se num tema amplo na ciência política e sociologia política, aquele das « mudanças na política e das mudanças nas políticas públicas » (Genieys & Hassenteufel, 2012). Essa questão foi renovada pela análise cognitiva das políticas públicas (Hall, 1993; Muller, 2005). Foi abordada também em termos de rupturas...

La reciente pandemia de la COVID se produjo en un mundo cada vez más globalizado (Sassen, 2007): la transmisión fue rápida y mundial, y al mismo tiempo estuvo marcada por las crecientes desigualdades, con consecuencias tanto a corto como a largo plazo. Podemos distinguir dos grandes situaciones y reacciones:-Para las sociedades más abastecidas fue...

This study addresses the problem of defining the scope and substance of the climate adaptation policy, which operates with comprehensive objectives and engages with multiple meanings, policy tools, and sectors to allow societies to cope with the effects of climate change. Analyzing the design of Brazil’s National Adaptation Plan sheds light on the...

This chapter summarises the main theoretical and empirical contributions of policy transfer and diffusion studies in the rural sector. Drawing on recent studies developed in European, Latin American and African countries, this work provides an outlook regarding transfer agents, mechanisms, processes, and their effects on food security, territorial...

This book chapter summarizes the main theoretical and empirical contributions of policy transfer and diffusion studies in the rural sector. Drawing on recent studies developed in European, Latin American and African countries, this work provides an outlook of transfer agents, mechanisms, and processes with regard to their effects on food security,...

This article examines the participation of family farmers in the Rural Development Forums (Mesas de Desarrollo Rural) established in Uruguay in 2007. Over a period of three years (2015-2017), several of these forums were studied in three departments of Uruguay, based on the application of an analytical framework focusing on the variables of public...

A recente pandemia COVID aconteceu num mundo cada vez mais globalizado (Sassen, 2007) a transmissão foi rápida e mundial e, ao mesmo tempo marcado por desigualdades crescentes, com consequências marcantes a curto como a longo prazo. Podemos distinguir duas grandes situações e reações: -Para as sociedades mais abastecidas foi um golpe inédito na épo...

Desde meados dos anos 1990 e, principalmente, início dos anos 2000, a agricultura familiar vem passando por mudanças expressivas no Mercosul. Até então a categoria social era praticamente ignorada em decorrência da interpretação, sustentada pela maioria dos governos, acerca da existência de "uma única agricultura" em seus países (Ramos, 2019; Gonza...

Latin American agroecology proposes a transformation of conventional agri-food systems. It is driven by social movements that have succeeded in forming coalitions that have promoted its integration into public policies. These policies involve a range of instruments that are often embedded in programs that also support organic agriculture and sustai...

Cette communication soulève la question des formes d'appui aux multiples fonctions de l' agriculture dans de nombreux pays où existent des limites à l'allocation de ressources (publiques ou privées) et au recours au marché pour rémunérer d'autres éléments que la production agricole. Elle signale plu sieurs modalités de gestion collective de ces aut...

Na região semi-árida do Nordeste, a criação de organizações de pequenos produtores é recente. Data, geralmente, dos anos 80 e da organização das comunidades de base pela igreja católica. Foi freqüentemente ligada à intervenção do Estado federal, por intermédio de programas especiais de luta contra a seca: Polonordeste, Projeto São Vicente, Projeto...

The paper analyzes the evolution and the results of interaction processes taking place between agronomists and smallholding regarding support for innovation processes. It tackles the subject of partnership relationships between agronomists and farmers for the joint construction of knowledge, references and innovations, around the exemple of a partn...

Após uma breve descrição do contexto agrário regional, este capítulo resume a história da agricultura do Nordeste semi-árido desde suas origens. Mostra como e por quê a agricultura familiar, por muito tempo ignorada, evoluiu até tornar-se a principal forma de produção agrícola da região, e como ela é objeto, há alguns anos, de um novo interesse no...

Em escala regional, o impacto sócio-econômico e mediático das secas e a onda de modernização agropecuária incitaram os poderes públicos a intervir no âmbito da irrigação, elevada a mito. Mas, essas operações não conseguiram nem mudar a situação de dependência do pequeno produtor, nem valorizar de modo eficaz os recursos disponíveis. No plano local,...

O tema "Interações entre população e meio ambiente e da sua relação com a evolução dos sistemas de produção agropecuária na região semi-árida" é bastante amplo e complexo. Serão focados apenas alguns elementos, a partir de exemplos, de maneira a subsidiar o debate em torno das ações de pesquisa e das políticas públicas de desenvolvimento ligadas ao...

Abstract: Last years, new forms of collective action among Northeast smallholders have been developed by peasant communities and family farmer’s organisations. Several of these experiences have mobilised social and socio-professional networks, among civil society. They led to the expression of some claims through hybrid forums or commissions, in or...

in Diversificação dos espaços rurais e dinâmicas territoriais no Nordeste do Brasil, Da SIlva G A; Cavalcanti J S B et Wanderley M N B (Edits) , João Pessoa, Editora Zarinha, 2009, pp 147-186 Resumo: Uma das dificuldades das formas de agricultura familiar e camponesa reside no acesso a mercados parciais e diversificados adaptados às suas caracterís...

Les études réalisées en matière de politiques agricoles et de développement rural territorial à l’échelle de l’Amérique latine montrent la diffusion à l’image du Brésil et de l’Argentine de politiques de développement rural territorial. Celles-ci associent trois types d’intervention : des outils de régulation territoriale (zonages économiques-écolo...

The economy of reciprocity: heritage and challenge for traditional peoples and communities Abstract: This paper proposes to introduce the notion of reciprocity economy in the debate on the economic situation and the future of traditional peoples. First, recognition of the reciprocity economy allows us to analyze the nature of economic and social r...

Le Nordeste, région problématique du Brésil, connaît des mutations rurales que les institutions de développement ne parviennent plus à accompagner. La forte demande institu-tionnelle ouvre le champ aux initiatives. L'URCA-Nordeste (Unité régionale de formation et d'appui au développement rural du Nordeste) expérimente un système d'appui à la planif...

Abstract – The dismantling of the rural and environmental public policies in Brazil. The article deals with the modalities of the recent dismantling of rural and environmental public policies with a hindsight of a few years by mobilizing the examination of several components: land, family farming, rural territorial development, agroecology and the...

Magdaléna Hadjiisky, Leslie A. Pal y Christopher Walker, Eds. 2017. Public Policy Transfer. Micro-Dynamics and Macro-Effects. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 360p. New Horizons in Public Policy series. ISBN: 9781785368035 Esta obra colectiva editada y coordinada por tres especialistas de la difusión de políticas públicas (M. Hadjiisky de l...

The municipality of Mambaí, located inside the Environmental Protection Area (APA) Nascentes do Rio Vermelho, in the northeastern state of Goiás, Brazil, is home to six rural settlements, with a total of 313 families. Despite the context of poverty, lack of public support and the tendency to precarious life in settlements, several of their family f...

This article analyzes the trajectory of agroecology policies in Brazil. The methodology includes an extended literature review and interviews with key actors based on a framework that drew from that of the sociology of public action. The results indicate that the formation of a coalition of social movements has played a major role in the adoption o...

En las últimas dos décadas, el enfoque territorial fue introducido e incorporado en la formulación e implementación de políticas y programas de desarrollo territorial rural (DTR) en muchos países de América Latina. A partir de la revisión de investigaciones previas y de encuentros de expertos, este artículo presenta un balance de los logros y limit...

This book presents the main contribution of the international conference held in june 2019 in Paris by IdA, AFD and EU-LAC foundation about Resources, inequalities and development of rural areas in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. In a world marked by increasing urbanization, rural and agricultural areas play a key role, due to specific nat...

The municipality of Mambaí, located inside the Environmental Protection Area (APA) Nascentes do Rio Vermelho, in the northeastern state of Goiás, Brazil, is home to six rural settlements, with a total of 313 families. Despite the context of poverty, lack of public support and the tendency to precarious life in settlements, several of their family f...

ABSTRACT: This study analyzes the patterns of coordination of a set of policy instruments promoted by Brazil’s National Adaptation Plan as a means of fostering climate adaptation in the rural areas of the country’s semiarid region. It combines institutional data and semi-structured interviews with policymakers to elucidate the process of implemen...

This paper analyses the emergence of new institutional stakeholders linked to new functions of rural development in a context of globalisation and State intervention reform in the Northeast of Brazil. Some of these functions are non mercantile and can be associated to the recognition of the multifunctionality of agriculture and rural spaces. Based...

Resumen: El trabajo presenta los resultados de un estudio de políticas públicas a favor de la agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe. El objetivo era analizar las políticas o herramientas que influyen la adopción de prácticas agro-ecológicas e identificar sus principales efectos. El método pasó por la aplicación de una guía de análisis común en...

The Transbrasil project1 seeks to explain the diffusion of Brazilian social and rural development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean through the combination and hybridisation of three categories of public policy internationalisation process referenced in the literature: the circulation of norms and models through international organisation...

A região do Oeste de Santa Catarina se integrou à “modernização da agropecuária” a partir da década de 1950, por meio da agroindustrialização de alimentos, tendo como protagonistas o Estado, a sociedade civil e o mercado, que atuaram nos níveis nacional, estadual e municipal. Baseado na sociologia da ação pública, o objetivo deste artigo consiste e...

Abstract: (The productive and food practices in rural space of western Santa Catarina: public action in the search for and critique of modernity). The western region of Santa Catarina was integrated to the “modernization of agriculture” in the 1950s, through the agro-industrialization of the food system, having as protagonists the State, civil soci...

Resumo: O artigo trata da permanência de práticas clientelistas e das suas tensões com o enfoque participativo adotado no marco da política pública brasileira de desenvolvimento territorial rural, em particular no caso da implementação local do Programa Nacional de Desenvolvimento Territorial. Os resultados provêm do estudo do funcionamento do Cole...

The article deals with the modalities of the recent dismantling of rural and environmental public policies with a hindsight of a few years by mobilizing the examination of several components: land, family farming, rural territorial development, agroecology and the environment. The analysis focuses on the last three governments (Rousseff, Temer and...

Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'un projet de coopération universitaire Capes- Cofecub (2013-2016), réunissant des chercheurs brésiliens (universités fédérales de Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina et Brasilia) et français (CIRAD, CNRS, universités Paul-Valéry, de Perpignan, de Montpellier). Il développe une réflexion sur la dimension t...

Este documento dá continuidade a uma série de estudos realizados pelo Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Universidade de Brasília (CDS/UnB) e pelo Centro francês de Cooperação Internacional em Pesquisa Agronômica para o Desevolvimento (CIRAD) na região semiárida de Petrolina e Juazeiro. São analisados os fatores políticos e institucionais que...

Depuis 2003, de nouvelles politiques d'inclusion sociale ont été développées au Brésil, pour les secteurs les plus pauvres et marginalisés de la société. Ce fut le cas notamment du programme de transfert conditionnel de revenu, Bolsa Família (PBF), sous la responsabilité du Ministère du développement social et de lutte contre la faim (MDS). Dans un...

1. La elaboración y aplicación del enfoque territorial se ha reflejado en el desarrollo de políticas y programas de desarrollo rural en la primera década de este milenio en América Latina, con antecedentes y avances paralelos en Europa y expresiones en otras partes del mundo. 2. El enfoque territorial es una perspectiva de desarrollo rural y, más...

Este livro é o resultado de uma pesquisa colaborativa entre um número significativo de pessoas que praticam e estudam a agroecologia em 09 estados brasileiros além do Distrito Federal, representativos das cinco macrorregiões do país. Além das análises sobre a construção, institucionalização e implementação das políticas no campo da agroecologia, es...

The objective of this article is to analyze the process of building instruments in favor of agroecology and organic production in the Federal District of Brazil, particularly the creation of a district policy. The study associates the sociology of public action and policy networks analysis. The methodology combines the analysis of documents and int...

This paper presents elements of a transversal and comparative synthesis of a research focusing on the processes of construction of State Policies for Agroecology and Organic Production (PEAPOs) in 11 Brazilian federated states. Based on information originated from documentary analysis and semi-directive interviews of actors and managers, we designe...

Latin America and the Caribbean are regions especially interesting to analyse the emergence and development of alternative food and production models with the aim of addressing environmental, social, economic and public health issues. Since the 1960s, this wider region has been threatened by the excesses of the conventional agriculture based on the...