RURAL PUBLIC POLICIES: STATE, AGRICULTURE, AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

Luis Eduardo Rangel; Marília Steinberger; Ricardo Carmona

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DOI

10.29327/9786527226680.1439965

Título do Trabalho

RURAL PUBLIC POLICIES: STATE, AGRICULTURE, AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

Autores

Luis Eduardo Rangel
Marília Steinberger
Ricardo Carmona

Modalidade

IRSA - Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (01/10/2025 a 20/01/2026)

Área temática

IRSA 14 - Global Crises and Socio-ecological Transitions in Rural Territories

Data de Publicação

06/08/2026

País da Publicação

Brasil

Idioma da Publicação

pt-BR

Página do Trabalho

https://www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1439965-rural-public-policies--state-agriculture-and-sustainability-indicators

ISBN

978-65-272-2668-0

Palavras-Chave

Sustainability; Integrated Indicators; Rural Territories; Public Policies; Green GDP.

Resumo

The structural tensions guiding public policies for the Brazilian rural environment are highlighted in the clash between two state rationalities: the productivity view, institutionalized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), and the logic of territorial occupation, associated with the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA). This duality produces simultaneous yet poorly articulated policies that operate upon territories without integrating them as a central analytical category. The modernization of agriculture, the expansion of agricultural frontiers, and international pressures for sustainability widen this cleavage, revealing the insufficiency of conventional indicators. Our approach is based on the integration of social, environmental, and economic indicators and assesses the performance of rural territories under different state rationalities. In the case of the MDA, the emphasis falls on territorial development, productive inclusion, agricultural diversity, social vulnerability, and local capabilities. In the case of MAPA, metrics of total factor productivity, emission intensity, technological efficiency, and market access prevail. In both cases, variables such as deforestation must be integrated into the set of indicators, which should demonstrate that the public policies of the two actors will produce not only distinct diagnoses but also different conceptions of sustainability and intervention priorities. The construction of an integrated matrix of indicators—combining emissions, environmental risk, climate resilience, income, infrastructure, food security, and institutional capacity—constitutes an essential tool for understanding regional heterogeneities and revealing hidden patterns in sectoral policies. Thus, we can classify territories according to multiple dimensions of sustainability, offering contributions to the development of the Green Domestic Product - GDP and for more coherent public decisions aligned with the socio-environmental complexity of the Brazilian rural environment. The adoption of integrated indicators may represent a necessary advancement to overcome the historical fragmentation between agricultural productivity and land use, and to guide fairer, more effective, and environmentally responsible rural development strategies.

Título do Evento: 16th World Congress of Rural Sociology and 64th Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rural Economics, Management and Sociology
Cidade do Evento: Porto Alegre
Título dos Anais do Evento: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA)
Nome da Editora: Even3
Meio de Divulgação: Meio Digital
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RANGEL, Luis Eduardo; STEINBERGER, Marília; CARMONA, Ricardo. RURAL PUBLIC POLICIES: STATE, AGRICULTURE, AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS.. In: Anais do 64º Congresso da SOBER e XVI Congresso Mundial de Sociologia Rural (IRSA). Anais...Porto Alegre(RS) UFRGS, 2026. Disponível em: https//www.even3.com.br/anais/sober-irsa2026/1439965-RURAL-PUBLIC-POLICIES--STATE-AGRICULTURE-AND-SUSTAINABILITY-INDICATORS. Acesso em: 16/09/2026