Agrofuel policies in Brazil: paradigmatic and territorial disputes

The expansion of agrofuel crops challenges us to rethink policies, territories, human agency, and the paradigms used to explain them. In Brazil, policies supporting the expansion of agrofuel crops and the intensification of agrofuel production are reorganising rural land use and undermining some forms of participation in the capitalist and family modes of production. To reflect on this new reality, we study peasant movement reactions, proposals, and territorial disputes with agribusiness. Using the Pontal do Paranapanema region of São Paulo state as a case in point, the paper analyses territorial disputes between expanding sugarcane plantations and agrarian reform settlements as well as biodiesel production projects developed by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) and the Western São Paulo Federation of Settlement and Family Farmer Associations (FAAFOP). It also analyses the agrofuel policies of other peasant organisations, including Via Campesina. The production of agrofuels has changed the processes of land acquisition and use by both agribusiness and the peasantry, provoking new insights into the nature of territorial conflicts and thereby stimulating the need to revise perspectives on the agrarian question in Brazil.

Planning and Projects of Secondary Electric Power Distribution Systems

This paper proposes a methodology to achieve integrated planning and projects for secondary distribution circuits. The planning model is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem (MINLP). In order to resolve this problem, a tabu search (TS) algorithm is used, with a neighborhood structure developed to explore the physical characteristics of specific geographies included in the planning and expansion of secondary networks, thus obtaining effective solutions as well as low operating costs and investments. The project stage of secondary circuits consists of calculating the mechanical efforts to determine the support structures of the primary and secondary distribution systems and determining the types of structures that should be used in the system according to topological and electrical parameters of the network and, therefore, accurately assessing the costs involved in the construction and/or reform of secondary systems. A constructive heuristic based on information of the electrical and topological conditions between the medium voltage and low voltage systems is used to connect the primary systems and secondary circuits. The results obtained from planning and design simulations of a real secondary system of electric energy distribution are presented.

Modernization and new services of the Brazilian active control network

The Brazilian Network for Continuous Monitoring of GNSS - RBMC is a national network of continuously operating reference GNSS stations. Since its establishment in December of 1996, it has been playing an essential role for the maintenance and user access of the fundamental geodetic frame in the country. In order to provide better services for RBMC, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE and the National Institute of Colonization and Land Reform - INCRA are both partners involved in the National Geospatial Framework Project - PIGN. This paper provides an overview of the recent modernization phases the RBMC network has undergone highlighting its future steps. These steps involve the installation of new equipment, provide real time data from a group of core stations and compute real-time DGPS corrections, based on CDGPS (The real-time Canada-Wide DGPS Service) (The Real-Time Canada-Wide DGPS Service. http://www.cdgps.com/ 2009a). In addition to this, a post-mission Precise Point Positioning (PPP) service has been established based on the current Geodetic Survey Division of NRCan (CSRS-PPP) service. This service is operational since April 2009 and is in large use in the country. All activities mentioned before are based on a cooperation signed at the end of 2004 with the University of New Brunswick, supported by the Canadian International Development Agency and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency. The Geodetic Survey Division of NRCan is also participating in this modernization effort under the same project. This infrastructure of 66 GNSS stations, the real time, post processing services and the potentiality of providing Wide Area DGPS corrections in the future show that the RBMC system is comparable to those available in USA and Europe. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.

O impacto epidemiológico e social das ações do Programa de Saúde da Família - PSF, na saúde dos usuários em Feira de Santana - Bahia

Pós-graduação em Odontologia Preventiva e Social - FOA

Cuidado em saúde mental: a escuta de pacientes egressos de um Hospital Dia.

This is a qualitative study aiming at understanding how patients discharged from a Mental Health Day Hospital view the service, at learning whether such service contributed to changes in their lives and at whether those individuals continued treatment. Semi-structured interviews and documental research were used for nine patients who had completed treatment at the service in 2008. Thematic analysis was adopted for organization of the data obtained, which were analyzed according to the Psychosocial Rehabilitation framework. It emphasizes the importance of looking for the various subjective aspects of human existence, requiring from services and professionals the establishment of a caring relationship that enables the reconstruction of trajectories interrupted by the onset of the disease, through actions that consider the integrality and intersectionality.

Dissertação-fílmica: cinema, loucura e resistência

Pós-graduação em Educação - IBRC

O cuidado em saúde mental: a escuta de pacientes egressos de um Hospital Dia

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

A saúde na roça: estudo hermenêutico de um serviço da saúde da família

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Os assentamentos de trabalhadores rurais sem terra do centro-oeste/PR enquanto território de resistência camponesa

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Autonomia, participação popular e educação em contexto de reforma do Estado

Pós-graduação em Educação - FFC

Programa de gestão única da rede pública de ensino de Mato Grosso: acesso ao sistema único pela via neoliberal

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

O governo Lula e a agenda dos anos 90: ambigüidade na política administrativa

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Movimento dos trabalhadores sem terra: observações sobre a reforma intelectual e moral gramsciana

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Construindo um estilo de pensamento na questão agrária: o debate paradigmático e o conhecimento geográfico

Nesta tese de livre-docência apresento uma reflexão crítica da trajetória de quatorze anos sobre nove temas da questão agrária. Neste tempo, no coletivo de pensamento do Núcleo de Estudos, Pesquisas e Projetos de Reforma Agrária - NERA, produzimos um estilo de pensamento que chamamos de debate paradigmático, o sétimo tema desta tese, para fazer uma leitura do desenvolvimento territorial e suas conflitualidades, que são o quinto tema analiso. O primeiro tema é a própria questão agrária, explicando como velhos e novos elementos modificam a conjuntura sem abalar a estrutura. Um exemplo dessa tese são o latifúndio e o agronegócio analisados como o segundo tema. Outro exemplo estudado no quarto tema, são os conceitos de agricultura camponesa e agricultura familiar, que representam os mesmos sujeitos, mas que são vistos como diferentes pelo paradigmas da questão agrária e do capitalismo agrário. Para um aprofundamento do desenvolvimento territorial, proponho uma tipologia de territórios na perspectiva de superar o pensamento simples de entender o território como espaço de governança. Os movimentos socioespaciais e socioterritoriais são o sexto tema, onde procuro exemplificar com referencias do campo e da cidade. A estrangeirização da terra é o tema mais recente que tenho estudado, de modo que apresento minhas primeiras leituras a respeito deste novo elemento da questão agrária. E por fim, a luta pela terra e pela reforma agrária que são gerados e produtores da questão agrária. Minhas leituras foram construídas com a colaboração de uma equipe de pesquisadores do NERA e de outros grupos de pesquisa no Brasil e no exterior. Embora, este trabalho seja meu, não o teria realizado sem a contribuição de todos

A disputa territorial e o controle das políticas no território Cantuquiriguaçu – Estado do Paraná: a participação dos movimentos socioterritoriais e o papel do estado

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT