commercial farms use of pesticides and biotechnology in Brazil to document environmental effects of GM traits. We explore within …

agriculture has encroached into marginal or fragile lands, leaving little room for the expansion of agricultural lands (Kraybill …, Bashaasha, and Betz 2009). Additionally, soil degradation has become a barrier to agricultural productivity (Pender et al. 2004 …

We use a spatially disaggregated model of Brazilian agriculture to assess the implications of global biofuel expansion … impact of biofuel expansion and policies on both Brazilian and world agriculture. We evaluate two scenarios in which we … particularly in Brazil. In the first scenario, we assume that the enforcement of the land-use reserve in Brazil remains at …

In this paper, we simulate the Brazilian agriculture and transportation fuel sectors using a price endogenous … emissions from Brazil would increase significantly due to the consumption of a more carbon intensive fuel blend. …

This study analyzes the impact of climatic variability on ethanol trade between Brazil and the U.S utilizing a partial …

to the soon-to-be-released 2006 agricultural census, that Brazil’s multi-factor productivity growth rate between 1985 and …Brazil now is the largest coffee, sugar, and fruit juice producer, second-largest soybean and beef producer, and third … to examine technical change and efficiency in Brazilian agriculture. Our approach is to estimate a stochastic, multi …

The role of the processed citrus industry of Brazil, the largest world orange juice producer, is discussed with …