Abstract
This article aims to explain the transition of the Brazilian agricultural production system towards sustainability . It uses the multilevel perspective as an analytical tool to examine Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and organic certification programs. It was found that GAP compliance programs represent an adjustment to refit modern agriculture to new expectations created at the level of the landscape and of the incumbent regime. In addition, it explains internal misalignments observed with the implementation of organic production and pressures from the incumbent regime and the landscape hampering the consolidation of organic production as a mainstream production system. Good agricultural practices; organic food; sociotechnical systems; transition to sustainability. • We describe the interaction of macro groups of actors with market forces in the Brazilian food system, searching for convergences towards existing socio technical trajectories of sustainability. • The observation of GAP and organic certification programs indicate that they carry stricter requirements regarding food security and the environment, and tighter control means.
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