Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado
This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil’s Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropr
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Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado
Akio Hosono Nobuaki Hamaguchi Alan Bojanic •
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Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado
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Editors Akio Hosono JICA Research Institute Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuaki Hamaguchi RIEB Kobe University Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Alan Bojanic Food and Agriculture Organization Brasília, Brazil
ISBN 978-981-13-6181-4 ISBN 978-981-13-6182-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6182-1
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Foreword
In just over four decades, Brazil has achieved a remarkable transformation of the Cerrado, a vast area of tropical savanna, 5.5 times the land area of Japan. The Cerrado, once believed to be unfit for agriculture, is today one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. The second of the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) is aimed at ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, as well as promoting sustainable agriculture. In meeting this goal, Brazil’s experience of agricultural development and formation of agroindustrial value chains in the Cerrado, based on technological and institutional innovations, may offer some valuable insights. Brazil and Japan engaged in technical and financial cooperation through the Japanese Brazilian Cooperation Program for Cerrados Development (PRODECER) as well as other programs to increase grain production in the Cerrado and contribute to the world fo
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