Implications of Brazilian beef production for food security:

scientific versus industry discourses

Authors

  • Janaina Michelini INPE -Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Myanna Lahsen INPE -Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v7n3.2016.18525

Keywords:

Pecuária, Discurso, Segurança Alimentar

Abstract

This article examines how actors involved in Brazil’s beef production sector define the sector’s role in
food security in the context of re-primarization of the economy. Data drawn from 12 semi-structured
interviews conducted between 2013 and 2014 with representatives of the sector show a contradiction
between their framings of food security and those found in the scientific literature: while the latter
increasingly stresses the need to reduce production and consumption of meat in order to strengthen
food security in the long term, respondents present beef production as essential to ensure food security
at the national and global levels. Findings therefore indicate that the sector’s discourse paradoxically
puts the country’s food security at risk.

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Author Biographies

Janaina Michelini, INPE -Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

Bióloga (UNESP ”“ Botucatu), Mestre em Educação para a Ciência (UNESP-Bauru), Doutoranda em Ciência do Sistema Terrestre (INPE)

Myanna Lahsen, INPE -Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais

PhD em Antropologa Cultural (Rice University, EUA), Pesquisdora Titular no Centro de Ciência do Sistema Terrestre do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brasil. É editora executiva com as revistas científicas Wiley Interdsciplinary Reviews (WIREs) - Climate Change e Environment Magazine, e assessor para Nature Climate Change .

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2016-12-30 — Updated on 2021-03-11

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Michelini, J., & Lahsen, M. (2021). Implications of Brazilian beef production for food security:: scientific versus industry discourses. Sustainability in Debate, 7(3), 112–126. https://doi.org/10.18472/SustDeb.v7n3.2016.18525 (Original work published December 30, 2016)

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