the development of brazilian agriculture future technological challenges and opportunities巴西农业的发展未来的技术挑战和机遇.pdf

Pereira et al. Agriculture Food Security 2012, 1:4 /content/1/1/4 REVIEW Open Access The development of Brazilian agriculture: future technological challenges and opportunities 1 2* 3 4 Pedro A Arraes Pereira , Geraldo B Martha Jr , Carlos AM Santana and Eliseu Alves Abstract Ensuring food security for the world’s population over the coming decades will face the challenges of a larger world population, greater urbanization, limited natural resources, higher levels of income, and stronger links between the agricultural and biofuel markets. Overcoming the challenges these represent will require, among other efforts, promoting sustainable expansion of agricultural production through higher productivity and greater cropping intensity. In this paper, we examine the role of Brazil’s agriculture industry in the domestic and world markets; first, we review the country’s agricultural development experience, and second, we address some key issues that will play a pivotal role in Brazilian agriculture in the future. The paper highlights the main aspects of the modernization process experienced by Brazil’s national agriculture industry, presents the style of agricultural growth followed by the country, and discusses selected technologies that have played a major role in transforming the sector over the past four decades. We also analyze income from different farm sizes, and provide an overview of key agricultural research challenges and technologies that will be pursued by Brazil in the near future. Keywords: Food security, Perspectives, Agricultural development, Brazil, Technology Review nominal food prices could remain a