O censo agropecuário 1995-96 é utilizado para estudar os fatores responsáveis pelas diferenças na pobreza entre os estabelecimentos agrícolas no Brasil. As diferenças entre as regiões e as seguintes dicotomias são analisadas: proprietários/não proprietários; familiares/não...

Com base nas teorias de desenvolvimento da fronteira e nas abordagens de estratégias de sobrevivência, este artigo ilustra o processo de colonização e dinâmica de uso do solo do Cerrado brasileiro, destacando a importância da migração, das associações agrícolas e do governo em...

Este estudo testa as hipóteses das convergências absoluta, condicional e sigma, para o PIB agropecuário per capita (PIBAGpc). Nas simulações com a convergência-β absoluta, os parâmetros foram significativos (α =1%) e sinais desses estão em consonância com a teoria econômica....

Based on the Nacional Households Survey (PNAD), this paper analyzed the employment quality in the Brazilian agriculture and six main crops (rice, coffee, sugarcane, manioc, corn and soybean) in the 2001-2004 period. An Employment Quality Index (EQI) was created for this analysis, based on four...

This paper examines the French agricultural modernization process based on the evaluation of economists, social and political scientists, involving especially the debate of the contemporary social science and rural economics. The objective is to understand its dynamics by the relationship...

Este artigo constitui uma revisão das principais questões teóricas e empíricas atinentes às interfaces econômicas entre agricultura, meio ambiente e comércio, em geral, e para o Brasil em particular. Ao longo dos anos, diante da multiplicidade de resultados desencontrados observados na...

This paper assesses the impacts of the increase in the ethanol demand in Brazil and in the United States on the agricultural production and land use. A global economic model representing agricultural and energy markets, trade among countries, ethanol supply and the demand in Brazil and in the US...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically show the relative importance of the agricultural sector in the productive framework of Mato Grosso State (Brazil), an inter-regional input-output model for two regions: Mato Grosso and the rest of Brazil for 1999. The idea was to identify the most...

The article analyzes the effects of economic sectors and edu-cational level of workers on their probability to earn higher wages, at the county level in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Special emphasis is given to the agricultural sector, since it employs 20% of the total labor force occupied in...

The high foreign debt and the chronic current account deficit force Brazil to produce significant trade surplus. Agriculture has been giving a great contribution as its export value has been growing at higher rates than economy other products; therefore there is a welcome agricultural trade...