economic reforms affect not only the agriculture sector, but also poverty, Brazil’s inequality and the environment in Brazil. The country should shift away from agriculture production towards small-scale, environmentally-friendly and sustainable strategies in order to reduce rural poverty, increase domestic food security, and improve the environmental conditions within Brazil. If the Brazilian government continues to neglect these problems, environmental degradation and rural decline is likely to cause it to lose both, the long-term ability to export agricultural products and domestic food supply. Hence, Brazil must undertake the hard task of land reform and investment in small-scale and sustainable agriculture. References Araujo, Saulo (2009) “Family Farmers Feed Brazil”, Boston, MA: Family International, News Blog, 16. October; available at: . Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2002) FAO Papers on (Rome, Italy: Selected Issues Relating to the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture FAO, Commodities and Trade Division); Section on on single “Dependence agricultural commodity exports in developing countries: magnitude and trends”, pp. 219-239; available at: . Patel, Raj and Amanda Cassel (2003) Trade Liberalization and “Agricultural Brazil’s Rural Institute for Food and Poor: Consolidating Inequality”, Oakland, CA: Development Policy, Food First, No. 8 (August), available at: ; a Policy Brief, summary of this report is also available at: . Perz, Stephen G. (2000) Exodus in the Context of Economic Crisis, “The Rural Globalization and Reform in Vol. The International Migration Review, Brazil”, 34, No. 3 (October), pp. 842-888. Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2002) (New York, NY: W. W. Globalization and its Discontents Norton & Company Inc.). Watson, Kelly and Moira Laura Achinelli (2008) and Contingency: the Coffee “Context Crisis for Conventional Small-scale Coffee Farmers in The Geographical Brazil”, Vol. 3, No. 174 (September), pp. 223-234. Journal, World Bank (2008) CD-Rom (Washington, DC: World Development Indicators 2008, The World Bank). World Resources Institute (WRI) (2003) Earthtrends Country Profile: Brazil (Washington, DC: WRI); available at: .
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