In 2022, international mineral fertilizer prices reached high levels, which caused concern in the agricultural market. In this context, the present study analyzed the behavior of the mineral fertilizer market in Brazilian agricultural production. Using the SVAR model, the relationship between...

Chinese society has transformed in recent decades, moving from a predominantly agricultural country to one of the largest economies in the world. However, the accelerated industrialization and urbanization process has created considerable gaps between the rural and urban areas and the...

The paper strives to analyze the macroeconomic aspects related to agriculture and conjectural changes in recent years. In particular we analyze on the relationship between rural credit and sector performance characterizing some innovations of the period. With respect to family farming, the...

This work aimed to synthetize information regarding beef, pork and broiler production in Brazil, as well as the role of Brazil in the international market. This study was developed within a partnership between The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) and The Institute...

This article aims to discuss the need of reformulation of the commercialization policy in Brazil. This fact was discussed in earlier analysis, but the international crisis puts the question in an order dimension of importance. The price volatility and the integrated markets question were put as...

This work aims to analyze the commercialization process of non-lumberman forest products (açaí fruit) in the Integration Region of Tocantins, state of Pará, by using Alpha Social Accounts (CSa) methodology. The activities of the extractive nonlumberman forest products sector in the recent...

Actually, Brazil shows expertise in production, internal supply and exports of an extended variety of agricultural products and their processed products. At the same time, several studies expose Brazil's competitive capacity in those products, and a projected increase in world demands for foods,...

United States and India represent trade partners with strong demand for Brazilian food or interesting potential for future business. Here the objective was to verify the importance and potential in USA and Indian markets for Brazilian agricultural exports. Results based on identifying products...

This study estimates demand elasticities for staple foods in Brazil taking into account the differences in demand behaviour across urban and rural areas. We analyze microdata from 2002/2003 household expenditure survey (POF), conducted by IBGE. The methodology adopted in demand estimation is...

The mean goal of the study was to map food products that are constant or regular in Brazilian imports during 1989-2012 periods. Analyzing Brazilian agricultural imports face to Brazilian total imports it is possible to observe a decreasing cost of food imports in terms of Brazilian imports....