From Peasants to ‘Project Beneficiaries’: The Case of the Brazilian Amazon PPG7 Demonstration Projects

Olympio Barbanti
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Olympio Barbanti: Olympio Barbanti is an independent researcher affiliated to the post-graduate programme in International Relations at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) and consultant to the Brazilian Government’s environmental agencies. Email: olympio.barbanti@gmail.com

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, 2013, vol. 2, issue 1, 71-92

Abstract: From 1992 to 2012, the Brazilian government, together with international development agencies representing the G7, implemented the Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rainforests (PPG7). This intended to promote sustainable development in the Amazon forest area, with a key component being community-based agro-ecological and agroforestry production for the market. These projects, called ‘demonstration projects’, have provided financial credit to peasant-based organizations with some history of political and trade-union activity. However, by making a very selective use of approaches to rural development and overlooking the economic component of development in the agrarian sector, these projects seem to have resulted in a number of negative impacts for peasants and small-scale rural producers that remain overlooked in PPG7 official evaluations.

Keywords: rural development; peasantry; sustainability; Amazon; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1177/2277976013477182

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