January 2011
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... CCTs have led to the abandonment of old and robust large-scale social protection systems, withdrawing the state from the economy and diminishing public policies to replace them with subsidies in areas such as health, education, and housing. CCTs often consolidate the intensive agricultural model inherited mainly from the Green Revolution, whose negative effects (such as excessive use of chemical inputs) are still present, impoverishing agricultural systems, favoring monocultures and hybrid seeds, and promoting land use change [66,67]. Another effect is that CCTs result in low prices for agricultural products but high input costs, in addition to fostering a loss of biodiversity [68]. ...
January 2011