The rise in agricultural prices to alarming levels since 2007 characterized the agrinflation phenomenon. Because of the increase in food prices and the expectation of strong population growth in the coming years, the issue of land grabbing by foreigners in the world has been drawing the...

Public irrigation policy in Brazil aims to promote socioeconomic development focusing on economically disadvantaged regions that have agricultural potential. In the Northeast region, fruit exploitation plays an important role in the production. Irrigation projects in this region is an essential...

A considerable part of the population in the area of influence (AI) of the São Francisco Integration Program (PISF) in the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará survives from agricultural production in the approximately 500 thousand agricultural establishments scattered...

A vast economic literature argues that well-defined property rights over land use can be associated with increases in efficiency in the use of scarce resources. In December 2020, the Brazilian government launched the Titula Brasil program, which aims to support and facilitate the land...

The Ecoforte Program was created under the National Policy on Agroecology and Organic Production (PNAPO) with the objective of strengthening agroecology networks in Brazil. This research sought to understand how the expectations and demands of civil society to support and strengthen agroecology...

Pesticides are not only agricultural inputs but also dangerous products, reason why the state must regulate them. However, if scientific evidence about the effects of pesticides is universal, why do regulations vary across countries? This article argues that pesticide regulation depends in part...

Agricultural insurance is of great importance to agriculture of a country in terms of its role for farmers rent. Moreover, the fact that the crop insurance represent only 0.4% of the amount of the insurance market in Brazil indicates a large space to grow. Such markets, including...

Production insurance is one of the main instruments of agricultural policy at the global level. It provides security against the damages caused by bad weather, as well as induces the adoption of technologies and preserves productive capacities. In several countries, the government have been...

This study analyzed the impacts produced by the rule for purchasing family farming products for the National School Feeding Program (PNAE). It sought to verify the effects that the change in the public food procurement (CPA) mechanism under this program caused on the income and productive...

The Brazilian public food procurement program PAA is a federal government policy created to encourage family farming and fight food and nutritional insecurity of people in social vulnerability. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of PAA on the income and diversity of family...