Third Annual Lemann Dialogue

The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies hosted the Third Annual Lemann Dialogue at the Alice B. Campell Alumni Center, University of Illinois on November 7-8, 2013.
The theme of this year’s Dialogue was “Agricultural and Environmental Issues in Brazil.”

Agricultural and Environmental Issues in Brazil, November 7-8, 2013
Alice B. Campbell Alumni Center, University of Illinois

• Thursday, November 7, 2013
  • 2:00-3:00 PM: Registration
  • 3:00-3:30 PM: Welcoming Remarks
    • Ambassador Paulo Camargo, Consul General, Consulate General of Brazil in Chicago
    • Mary Arends-Kuenning, Interim Director, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Frances Hagopian, Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for Brazil Studies, Brazil Studies Program, Harvard University
    • Gustavo Azenha, Director of Graduate Studies, MARSLAC, Associate Director, Center for Brazilian Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University
    • Tassia Cruz, Fellow, Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil, Stanford University
    • Phyllis Wise, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 3:30-5 PM: Agribusiness: Achievements and Challenges
    Moderator: Thomas J. Trebat, Director, Columbia Global Center in Rio de Janeiro

     

    • Geraldo Bueno Martha Júnior, Coordenador do Sistema Agropensa, EMBRAPA
      Brazilian Agriculture: Development and Future Prospects
    • Peter Goldsmith, Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Food and Agribusiness Management Program (FAM), Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
      Understanding Agricultural Intensification and the Environmental Tradeoff Question: The Case of Mato Grosso, Brazil
    • Rachael Garrett, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program, Harvard University (and recent Stanford Ph.D.)
      Interactions Between Soybean Supply Chains, Governance, and Land Use at Multiple Scales
  • 5-5:15 PM: BREAK
  • 5:15-6:15 PM: Keynote Address
    • Guilherme Lacerda, Director of Social Infrastructure, Environment, Agriculture and Social Inclusion, Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento – BNDES
      Agriculture, Sustainability and Social Issues in Brazil
  • 6:15-8:00 PM: Reception, Alice B. Campbell Hall Atrium
• Friday, November 8, 2013
  • 8:30-10:00 AM: Land Distribution
    Moderator: Werner Baer, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Economics, University of Illinois

     

    • Bernardo Mueller, Professor of Economics, Universidade de Brasília
      Land Distribution and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
    • Lee Alston, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, University of Colorado
      Agricultural Tendency, Crop Choices and Farm Size
  • 10-10:15 AM: BREAK
  • 10:15-11:45 AM: Impact of Biofuels Production on Labor and Land Use
    Moderator: Jody Endres, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of Illinois

     

    • Tom Rogers, Associate Professor of History, Emory University
      The Human and Environmental Impacts of Brazil’s First Ethanol Boom, 1975-1985
    • Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, Professor, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Department of Economics, Sociology and Administration, USP/ESALQ
      Sugarcane-Ethanol Workforce in Brazil: Employment, Education, Social Inclusion
    • Hayri Önal, Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
      Public Policies and Transportation Fuel Markets in Brazil
  • 11:45 AM-1:15 PM: LUNCH (by invitation only)
  • 1:15-2:45 PM: Environmental Implications of Development
    Moderator: Paulo Sotero, Director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

     

    • Fabiano Toni, Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Development, Universidade de Brasília
      Land Planning by Default: The Expansion of the Agricultural Frontier in the Cerrado
    • Tatiana Deane de Abreu Sá, Researcher, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental
      Environmental Implications of Development: Focus on the Agricultural Perspective in the Brazilian Amazon Region
    • Carlos Azzoni, Director of the Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade da USP (Was unable to attend)
      The Importance of Agribusiness for the Brazilian Economy
  • 2:45-4:15 PM: Climate Change
    Moderator: Jesse Ribot, Professor of Geography and Director of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative, University of Illinois

     

    • Walter Baethgen, Director, Regional and Sectorial Research Program and Leader, Latin America and Caribbean, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
      Decisions, Policies and Adaptations to Climate Change
    • Clóvis Cavalcanti, Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Researcher, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco and President of Honors of the Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica
      Development and Socio-Environmental Conflict: The Case of the Suape Project in Pernambuco
    • David Gustafson, Environmental and Agriculture Policy Modeling Lead, Monsanto Corporation
      X-Farming: Coming to a Planet Near You
  • 4-4:15 PM: BREAK
  • 4:30-5:30 PM: Natural Resource Management: Wood and Water
    Moderator: Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History, University of Illinois

     

    • Francisco Assis de Souza Filho, Head of Ph.D. and Master’s Program in Water Resources and Environmental Hydraulics and Environmental Department, Federal University of Ceará
      Water Management and Drought in the Northeast of Brazil
    • Ariaster Chimeli, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio University
      Protecting the Rainforest? The Effectiveness and Costs of Mahogany Prohibition
  • 5:30-5:45 PM: Closing Remarks