Avaliação dos impactos socioeconômicos da cadeia produtiva do Biodiesel na agricultura familiar brasileira

Abstract

This paper aims to assess the socioeconomic impacts of the biodiesel production chain on family farming in Brazil, identifying the direct and indirect effects on family farmers and other sectors of the Brazilian economy. To estimate these effects, the present study adopted the Input-Product Theory as a methodological basis, accompanied by a survey based on secondary and complementary data to understand the structure of the biodiesel sector and family farming. This methodology considers all the direct and indirect effects involved throughout the entire production chain to meet the needs of supplying inputs from the sectors of the economy. The main database used was the National Input-Product Matrix for 2015, released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The results indicated that the biodiesel sector had significant impacts on the Brazilian economy and has shown growth over time due to the increase in the percentage of the mandatory mixture to mineral diesel oil. Specifically to the impacts on family farming, the results showed that the greatest effects occurred in the occupations generated and that the average monthly income from the jobs generated has contributed to the equivalent of 58% of the minimum wage in 2015. In addition, the family agricultural sector has impacts compared to the rest of the agricultural sector due to the lower proportion of biodiesel produced with raw material from family farming.

Keywords: Family farming; Biodiesel Productive chain; Socioeconomic impacts; Input-Output