The Brazilian rural space in the first two decades of the 21st century: advances and limits of the agro-environmental transition ; L'espace rural brésilien dans les deux premières décennies du XXIe siècle : avancées et limites de la transition agro-environnementale ; O espaço rural brasileiro nas duas primeiras décadas do século XXI: avanços e limites da transição agroambiental

International audience ; This article aims to assess the evolution of certain variables related to techniques and productive resources used in Brazilian farms, from the analysis of statistical data published in the 2006 and 2017 agricultural censuses of the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). The analysis was carried out on the scale of the five major regions and the 27 states of Brazil. To achieve this objective, a documentary and bibliographical research was carried out on the instruments instituted by the Brazilian State with the aim of promoting the agro-environmental transition over the last decades in the country. In addition, we analyzed the data from the 2006 and 2017 agricultural censuses on the use of agrochemicals, the use of machines and instruments, and the use of different production techniques on farms in the country. From the analysis of these data, we observed that the transition from a production paradigm based on the technological package of the green revolution to that to a model managed by ecological principles, techniques and practices is taking place in a very slow, limited, uneven way and permeated with ambiguities and contradictions in the Brazilian rural space. In this sense, it is verified that the adoption of positive agro-environmental practices requires the maintenance or expansion of the use of techniques and inputs harmful to natural resources and agrobiodiversity, in a process that is still mainly guided by an instrumentalist-technological and economic-productivist rationality, which, in certain socio-spatial contexts, begins to incorporate the precepts of other ecological and ecosocial rationalities. ; L’objectif de cet article est d’évaluer l'évolution de certaines variables liées aux techniques et aux ressources productives utilisées dans les exploitations agricoles brésiliennes, à partir de l’analyse des données statistiques publiées dans les recensements agricoles de 2006 et 2017 de l’Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). L’analyse a été ...