Livestock policy in the Brazilian Amazonia colonization

The objective of this chapter is to present, based on a diachronic analysis, the main steps of livestock farming in the Brazilian Amazonia and the policies that have been associated with it

Abordagem metodológica das diversas dimensões da sustentabilidade em projetos de uma rede interamericana

Since its creation in 2004 this South American network of researchers (Strategic Monitoring of South American Regional Transformations - SMART) has been trying to face the challenges brought about the expectations ofimprovement on farmers' performance, the concerns on natural resources preservation and the legitim desires of social justice and equity In this sense, the network has chosen the analysis of the movements and their links (the territorial dynamics, regional transformations, mobility). This paper analyzes the approaches and tools used in the network's researches to deal with different dimensions of sustainability: the transdisciplinary approach, participative methods associated to modelling (simulation, multi agent models) and the political analysis based on the construction of scenarios. (Résumé d'auteur