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Stakeholders

 

A variety of stakeholders will benefit from the project, including:

 

  • Farmer families of Canudos: being the users of the research outputs, they are the most relevant stakeholder and can benefit from the findings of the project that can help them to identify efficient options to distribute their products, leading to increased revenues and ultimately better living conditions.
  • Other vulnerable farmer families in Brazil: a community of around 350,000 families facing similar living and working conditions to the farmers from Canudos. In the long term, they can use the tools, training and outcomes of the project to make more informed decisions on how and where to supply their products, in order to be able to increase their income and subsequently, their living standard.
  • MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra): the Landless Workers' Movement is a Brazilian social movement supporting vulnerable farmers belonging to the lowest income segment. It will benefit from the project findings, whose transferable outcomes could be disseminated to other farmer settlements facing similar conditions to the farmers from Canudos, being informed about best practices and viable solutions.
  • Brazilian policy makers: being involved in the Brasilia dissemination events, they could benefit from the project findings to better tailor the development of public agricultural policies. Findings of the project can inform policy makers on the logistical challenges that vulnerable small farmers face in making use of the PAA & PNAE programs and what support would be needed to increase their participation. Finally, the discussion about potential adaptations of the model for other small producers and regions could interest this stakeholder group.
  • Brazilian schools: could benefit from being supplied from locally sourced products.

 

Additionally, key stakeholders are identified also within the academic community:

 

  • UFG and USP researchers: will gain expertise in logistics and distribution models and practices, allowing them to tackle the vulnerable farmer social issue in a more holistic way and apply this knowledge to other similar cases
  • Research community in Brazil: the dissemination events scheduled throughout the country will be open to the wider academic community, offering an opportunity to share the developed knowledge to other researchers in the country
  • UK researchers: the participation to the project will offer insights on the specific challenges faced in developing countries rural communities and the specifically tailored solutions required to tackle them
  • Young researchers from Brazil and UK: being at the initial stages of their careers, they will benefit from the experience and training offered throughout the project
  • University students in Brazil and UK: the knowledge generated through the project will be forwarded to university students thanks to specific case studies developed for dissemination. This will shade light on some trending topic, such as social sustainability and unequal income distribution, as well as informing students on technical skills in the area of logistics and distribution modelling.
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