O vírus da influenza aviária H5N1 tem se disseminado rapidamente por diversos países e continentes nos últimos anos, podendo também chegar ao Brasil. A ausência e a necessidade de estimativas dos efeitos econômicos que surtos da doença podem provocar sobre o setor avícola brasileiro...

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...

Nos últimos anos, o governo federal tem incentivado o mercado de seguro rural por meio de medidas pontuais que visam o aumento da demanda e o estabelecimento de condições adequadas para as seguradoras ofertarem seus produtos. Uma dessas medidas foi o Programa de Subvenção ao Prêmio do...

Americans are increasingly overweight, with the number of obese adults and overweight children doubling between the late 1970s and early 2000s. Several studies of the health consequences of Americans’ weight gain indicate that health care costs and the number of premature deaths...

This study analyzes social benefits created by Ceará government incentives to papaya producers from 2001 to 2006. As theoretical basis, it was considered an approach of the economic surplus of Marshall and simultaneous equations model. Results indicate that the supply price-elasticity of papaya...

The citrus agroindustrial system is a very interesting example of the interaction of different forms of governance. The same producer manages his orange sales to the market agents in different ways: this situation is called plural forms or contractual mix. On sales to purchasers that sell the...

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...