@Article{Benites-LazaroGiatSousGiar:2020:DiPoDe,
author = "Benites-Lazaro, Lira Luz and Giatti, L. L. and Sousa J{\'u}nior,
W. C. and Giarolla, Ang{\'e}lica",
affiliation = "{Universidade de S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)} and {Universidade de
S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)} and {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de
Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Land-water-food nexus of biofuels: Discourse and policy debates in
Brazil",
journal = "Environmental Development",
year = "2020",
volume = "33",
pages = "e100491",
month = "Mar.",
note = "{Pr{\^e}mio CAPES Elsevier 2023 - ODS 2: Fome zero e Agricultura
sustent{\'a}vel}",
keywords = "Biofuel, Water–energy–food nexus, Nexus governance, Latent
Dirichlet allocation, RenovaBio, Sentiment analysis.",
abstract = "Concerns regarding water scarcity, food security, and land/soil
degradation are increasing, and these issues are far from being
independent of bioenergy production. The competing need for land
and water resources in food and bioenergy production have been at
the forefront of policy debates. In this study, we examined policy
debates related to land, food and water use in sugarcane ethanol
production, and the challenges to integrated landwaterenergy-food
policies. We analyzed large amounts of data obtained from
governmental and business documents, Brazilian newspapers, and the
bulletins of non-governmental organizations over the last ten
years by combining an unsupervised probabilistic latent Dirichlet
allocation (LDA) model with sentiment analysis. The results show
that land, energy and water are managed in isolation by separate
and disconnected institutional entities. Although the discourses
of actors have evolved over time in response to certain events
(e.g., expansion of sugarcane and water scarcity), the discussions
and resultant public policies have failed to consider the
interdependence among various sectors. To achieve sustainable
resource use, sugarcane ethanol expansion should be considered by
decision-makers and companies within a wider governance framework
based on nexus dynamics; specifically, trade-offs in land and
water use with sectors beyond bioenergy must be acknowledged.",
doi = "10.1016/j.envdev.2019.100491",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2019.100491",
issn = "2211-4645",
language = "en",
targetfile = "benites_land.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "28 abr. 2024"
}