Lucas de Almeida Moura, Caroline de Oliveira Gallo, Francisco Chiaravalloti Neto, Alisson Diego Machado, Marina Maintinguer Norde, Giovanna Garrido, Nadine Marques Nunes Galbes, Aline Martins de Carvalho, Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni
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Abstract
In Brazil, family farming is responsible for producing a large portion of the food that is part of the population's diet. However, its development is hindered by inequality in land distribution and access to productive resources, as well as the concentration of wealth generated by the expansion of large-scale agriculture. This situation is even more evident in the Midwest Region of Brazil, where there is a greater concentration of land at the expense of a greater environmental impact, particularly in terms of greenhouse gas emissions produced by agricultural practices. This study analyzed the spatial distribution of the proportion used for family farming (PFLA) and its spatial correlation and association with socioeconomic and environmental factors in municipalities in the Midwest Region of Brazil. Data from 466 municipalities in three states of the Midwest Region were analyzed. The Moran's Index (global and local) was used to analyze spatial correlation among municipalities. A Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression model was adopted to analyze the association between PFLA and socioeconomic and environmental variables. The results show a greater predominance of non-family farming due to the existence of spatial clusters of municipalities with high or low values of the values of land used for family farming. Family farming was positively associated with population density, and the production value of corn and negatively associated with the land concentration index, GDP per capita, greenhouse gas emissions, and the production value of soybean. The study reveals spatial asymmetries in land use for family farming in Brazil’s Midwest, with non-family farming prevailing in areas of greater land concentration. Family farming shows positive associations with population density and corn production, and negative associations with land concentration, GDP per capita, soybean production, and greenhouse gas emissions. These patterns highlight structural constraints and suggest that, with adequate policy support, family farming may contribute to local food security.
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Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches.
Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet.
From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas:
Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition
Global food potential and global food production
Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs:
§ Climate, climate variability, and climate change
§ Desertification and flooding
§ Natural disasters
§ Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production
§ Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production
The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption.
Nutrition, food quality and food safety.
Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs:
§ Land, agricultural and food policy
§ International relations and trade
§ Access to food
§ Financial policy
§ Wars and ethnic unrest
Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.
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