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Organic Intellectuals: Legitimizing Agribusiness Production In Brazil, Carlos Hiroo Saito, Andréa A. Azevedo
Organic Intellectuals: Legitimizing Agribusiness Production In Brazil, Carlos Hiroo Saito, Andréa A. Azevedo
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Organic Intellectuals: Legitimizing Agribusiness Production in Brazil
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The scope of this article is to analyze the implementation of forest policy and the role played by Blairo Borges Maggi, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, during the period 2003-2010, namely the years coinciding, in the main, with both Lula’s term of office as President and with Maggi’s governorship of the Mato Grosso state. The approach and conditions of the policy were based on non-invasive technology – such as remote sensing imagery and a Geographic Information System (GIS) database regarding deforestation areas – and attempted to effectively control part of …