A construção do estado estratégico : a percepção dos atores intervenientes nas políticas públicas para a agricultura no Brasil no período 1991-2005

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2008

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The present dissertation elucidates perceptions about a strategic State by intervening agents in public policies for agriculture in Brazil from 1991 through 2005. As a protagonist in agro-food supply, worldwide leader outlooked by FAO and OCDE for the next ten years, and the planet under a strong growth of its urban population, one may wonder if Brazil is aware of this responsability. Moreover, Brazils natural conditions to develop bioenergy oblige an action of co-ordination by the State together with the market in order to prevent additional costs to its society. Dissatisfaction protests occur all over very often. A relevant issue on strategical plans in the hegemonic countries, the question raised here is if exists an integrated long-term action to agriculture in Brazil which may surpass the horizon of a crop or the mandate of a minister. As defined, the strategic State puts forth its alternating authority of rex (regulator) or dux (promoter). Theoretically, the strategic State aligns the new institutionalism from social sciences and the corporate strategy. Briefly, I explore agriculture as a public good. The larger is the recognition of its importance to the society, more consistent initiatives of integrated actions will be in order to implement public policies in the agro- food sector in order to construct a strategic State, as it exists in central countries. To understand the thought of agents, a survey has been carried through farmers, showing a transition of values plus a low confidence on congressmen and the public administration (national, states and municipalities) and. The quantitative research has been combined with semi-structured interviews with corporates, academy, officers and congressmen, which have together agreed on the non-existence of a national project for agriculture, whose image is still stereotyped. With the recent exception of biofuel, agriculture is not a priority. In the other hand, fragmentation on believes and collective action will bring conflicts in the future. The hesitant role of State does not answer to the gaps of market, more and more concentrated and limiting national companies. In search of continuous resources, science faces ideological conflicts, notwithstanding the well-succeed researches on tropical agriculture carried on by Embrapa. Signs of new paradigms do not prevent in Brazil the official bipolarization between agribusiness and small-farmers, integrated faces of a polyhedron. Besides, judicialization interposes among technical decisions on biosecurity, exceeding the scientific authority of biotechnology. Then, agriculture is not ingenious any more. Nowadays, it is a complex polycentric structure where governance regimes and outlines on accountability will be fundamental tools to agents to construct a strategic State.

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bem público agriculture neo-institucionalismo estratégia agricultura governança ciencias sociais public good governance políticas públicas public policies strategy neoinstitucionalism

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