Crop Substitution and Diversification Strategies : Empirical Evidence from Selected Brazilian Municipalities
This report looks at crop substitution and diversification strategies adopted in Brazil to foster the transition from tobacco to alternative crops. It analyzes the efforts undertaken in some Brazilian municipalities to support small-scale family fa...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/03/5702501/crop-substitution-diversification-strategies-empirical-evidence-selected-brazilian-municipalities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13648 |
| Summary: | This report looks at crop substitution
and diversification strategies adopted in Brazil to foster
the transition from tobacco to alternative crops. It
analyzes the efforts undertaken in some Brazilian
municipalities to support small-scale family farmers in
their transition from tobacco to other sustainable
livelihoods. This analysis comprises three case studies in
selected municipalities in the South region of Brazil: Santa
Cruz do Sul, Schroeder and Santa Rosa de Lima. Although all
are located in the two main tobacco-producing states, Rio
Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, these municipalities show
different degrees of economic dependence on tobacco and
differences in their forms of insertion in the tobacco
agro-industrial chain in Brazil. |
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