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Abstract
The emergence of transgenic soybean caused a negative externality for
conventional farmers since recognition and certification as transgenic-free implied on
high costs to make the segregation along the steps of process of production. Even though
there is the possibility of contamination and losses for nontransgenic farmers, regulations
of coexistence for those products practically do not exist. Consequently, this study aims
to investigate the legal parameters that should exist in the Brazilian legislation to
regulate the matter. This is an exploratory-descriptive research, in that data collection
was conducted with agents who represent segments of the soybean Agroindustrial
System. For this, semi-structured interview scripts composed by open and dichotomic
questions were used. The analysis of the content verbalized by participants was made
by the software Alceste and, afterwards, through manual analysis of the content, it was
possible to validate the electronic examination. Some categories of analysis emerged
from the speech of participants and results were organized and interpreted under the
referential framework of the theory of New Institutional Economics, indicating the need
of regulating specific parameters in order to assure the coexistence of both transgenic and
conventional soybean.