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productivity and its impacts on production, trade and prices of primary agriculture, and ultimately, food processing sectors. We … impacts that changes in agricultural productivity might have for seven food industry sectors, namely meat, vegetable oils and …
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agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there … of this study is to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in transition countries with … those of the European Union (EU) countries making use of the most recent data available from the Food and Agriculture …
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Huanglongbing (HLB) disease in citrus orchards in São Paulo State, Brazil, which is the largest world producer of orange juice and …
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equilibrium model of the world economy. The main results show that deforestation emissions in Brazil can be reduced at very low …
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Agricultural and non-agricultural distribution of earnings in Brazil …
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introducing non-transgenic herbicide tolerant (HT) rice in southern Brazil. The results revealed that under strict IPR enforcement … economic environment for the private sector to conduct research and to introduce new technologies in Brazil. …
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The aim of this study is to investigate the direct and indirect impacts of sugarcane expansion on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from 2001 to 2008. The analysis is based on the multi-output production theory where the annual agricultural acreage represents the Production Possibility...
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By paying particular attention to the local economic context, this paper analyzes rural non-agricultural employment and earnings in non-agricultural jobs. The empirical analysis is based on the Brazilian Demographic Census, allowing for disaggregated controls for the local economy. Education...
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context of modern agriculture, with well defined property rights, agricultural contracts must balance costs and benefits …
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Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this insurance type shows clear advantages compared to...
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