Condicionantes externos à política agrícola

Resumo

The recent transformations that occurred in the Brazilian economic policy - including the agricultural policy - had as a background the country's need to insert itself in the new international economic scenery. The negotiations that took place in the external front, particularly the recently concluded GATT's Uruguai Round and the conformation of MERCOSUL, design a new frame of reference for the formulation of policies. The present article analyzes these new external constraints from the point of view of Brazilian agricultural policy, as well as their compatibility with the guidelines that are being adopted to formulate it.