Agricultural production has major effects on the environment; the environment, in turn, affects farming. Despite the importance of the environment, the form of current production is treated as unsustainable and derogatory. In this sense, we have evaluated the importance of this on agricultural...

In the last few years, efforts have been made to modify agricultural support policies in order to minimize the distortive impacts on product level and on international trade. Emphasis has been given to decoupled payments, considered neutral to current production decisions. The main argument is...

The Ecological ICMS was first used to distribute a share of the ICMS revenue in the Paraná state in 1991. This pioneer experience originated from counties’ claims which argued that their economies were harmed by land use restrictions, mainly because they were watershed protection areas or...

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a interação entre preços internos e externos do algodão nas últimas duas décadas para determinar se a abertura comercial ocorrida na década de 90 representou um aumento da influência dos preços externos sobre os preços internos da pluma no país....

This paper aims to analyze whether Brazilian smallholder farmers who adopt irrigation methods would be more resilient to climate change when compared to smallholders producing rainfed crops. We developed a treatment effects model, based in the Propensity Score Matching technique, which can...