| Abstrakt: |
From 1992 to 2012, the Brazilian government, together with international development agencies representing the G7, implemented the Pilot Programme to Conserve the Brazilian Rainforests (PPG7). This intended to promote sustainable development in the Amazon forest area, with a key component being community-based agro-ecological and agroforestry production for the market. These projects, called ‘demonstration projects’, have provided financial credit to peasant-based organizations with some history of political and trade-union activity. However, by making a very selective use of approaches to rural development and overlooking the economic component of development in the agrarian sector, these projects seem to have resulted in a number of negative impacts for peasants and small-scale rural producers that remain overlooked in PPG7 official evaluations. |
