Assessing multidimensional sustainability: Lessons from Brazil's social protection programs.

ABSTRACT: Examining linkages among multiple sustainable development outcomes is key for understanding sustainability transitions. Yet rigorous evidence on social and environmental outcomes of sustainable development policies remains scarce. We conduct a national-level analysis of Brazil's flagship social protection program, Zero Hunger (ZH), which aims to reduce food insecurity and poverty. Using data from rural municipalities across Brazil and quasi-experimental causal inference techniques, we assess relationships between social protection investment and outcomes related to sustainable development goals (SDGs): "no poverty" (SDG 1), "zero hunger" (SDG 2), and "health and well being" (SDG 3). We also assess potential perverse outcomes arising from agricultural development impacting "climate action"

SUBMITTER: Dyngeland C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456127 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature