The effects of the world crises on Agriculture and the pressure on Brazilian natural resources

Abstract

The crisis is arising impacts on production systems, such us agriculture. All resourcesrequired to crop production and its rejects are thrown in the environment. Any increase ordecrease in the crop will bring consequences to natural resources. That is why we aim tocheck how the crisis affects farm products demand and how this demand impacts on theenvironment resources. To reach this goal we used information from two sites: a magazineand a newspaper we used information from two sites: a magazine and a newspaper (Veja andRevista Científica Hermes 2: 17-23, 2009Estado de Sao Paulo, respectively). We verified that Agriculture projected great harvests for2009, but the agribusiness had some difficulties caused by the fall of exportations. Theweakness on fund-raising from abroad, the rising of product costs required to theagribusinesses and the lack of credit lines to the farmer are obstacles for agricultural recovery.Additionally if the world crisis diminishes demand for food when producing food, it wouldhave a lower impact in the environment because the forests and natural resources would notbe substituted by farming or grazing.