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Changes in food chains in the context of globalization

This article highlighting the political and ideological conditions necessary for globalization and the role of the technologies associated with this process is an attempt to explain the nature and dynamics of change in food chains. In this text, a political-economic perspective is employed, relying on well-known theoretical and empirical examples that abound in the literature about globalization of food, and on...

Desenvolvimento rural: problemas e desafios. o Estado, o mercado e a sociedade ...

Projecto "Nascentes para a vida" /EPAL

Financially driven globalization impacts on the fight against hunger and poverty

Globalização e desenvolvimento rural no contexto de crise

Neste contexto de globalização e crise, o objectivo central deste texto é identificar os principais factores que determinaram as mudanças na geografia produtiva agrícola e alimentar, sublinhando as respectivas implicações, em particular no que respeita ao desenvolvimento das zonas rurais mais desfavorecidas. Pretende ainda chamar a atenção para o aumento dos factores de insustentabilidade decorrentes dos modos ...

Determinants of change on extensive livestock systems: a theoretical framework

The framework proposed in this paper results from a research conducted in the Lacope project1 and particularly, the field study of the extensive grazing systems of the Baixo Alentejo – southern Portugal2. This paper constitutes an attempt to enlarge this perspective in order to respond to different typologies of extensive grazing systems that could cover most of the existing pastoral systems3. Nevertheless, we ...

Empreendedorismo para as zonas desfavorecidas no contexto da globalização

Liberalização versus proteccionismo: elementos para compreender o que está em j...

Agricultural and agri-food trade protection (tariffs, subsidies, and other forms of protection such as non-tariff barriers) constitute one of the most disputed grounds of international trade relations. They are particularly important in WTO discussions and are increasingly recognized as having paramount importance for the future of the economic development of poor countries (2005 Human Development Report) and f...

A silvopastoricia na prevenção dos fogos rurais

É unanimemente reconhecido pelos especialistas a necessidade de implementar formas eficazes de prevenção contra os incêndios rurais/florestais, formas essas que se consubstanciam em métodos de redução da massa combustível. A pastorícia, juntamente como o roçar dos matos e respectivo uso para fazer camas para o gado, constituía o método ancestral mais usado em Portugal caído em desuso devido a razões económicas ...

Comparative typology in six european low-intensity systems of grassland management

European biodiversity significantly depends on large-scale livestock systems with low input levels. In most countries forms of grazing are organized in permanent or seasonal cooperations (land-owner/land-user agents) and covers different landscape such as alpine areas, forest, grasslands, mires, and even arable land. Today, the existence of these structures is threatened due to changes in agricultural land use ...

Globalização e contrato social: o caso da agricultura

This paper's central argument considers that Keynesian inspired social contract that ruled, without credible opposition until the emergence of the globalization process does not fit well anymore the current situation. After a short description of the general lines of the Keynesian social contract and of the socioeconomic and geopolitical context that were linked with it, the broad characteristics of globalizati...