Publications by authors named "Tiago N P Dos Reis"
The global trade of agricultural commodities has profound social-ecological impacts, from potentially increasing food availability and agricultural efficiency, to displacing local communities, and to incentivizing environmental destruction. Supply chain stickiness, understood as the stability in trading relationships between supply chain actors, moderates the impacts of agricultural commodity production and the possibilities for supply-chain interventions. However, what factors determine stickiness, that is, how and why farmers, traders, food processors, and consumer countries, develop and maintain trading relationships with specific producing regions, remains unclear.
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- - The agricultural commodity trade significantly contributes to the global economy but also leads to serious social and environmental issues, including deforestation.
- - Commodity traders play a crucial role in combating deforestation, as they operate in producing regions and have the potential to drive change, but their sourcing practices are often unclear.
- - Many traders source over 40% of their commodities through local intermediaries, which creates a gap in sustainable sourcing efforts; addressing this indirect sourcing is essential for effective deforestation initiatives.
The 2012 Brazilian Forest Code governs the fate of forests and savannas on Brazil's 394 Mha of privately owned lands. The government claims that a new national land registry (SICAR), introduced under the revised law, could end illegal deforestation by greatly reducing the cost of monitoring, enforcement, and compliance. This study evaluates that potential, using data from state-level land registries (CAR) in Pará and Mato Grosso that were precursors of SICAR.
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