Deforestation is considered a highly undesirable practice due to the destruction of local biomes and its effects on global warming. Governments around the world are seeking to adopt measures to control this activity and the international trade in wood and derivatives. Brazil, with the second...

Deforestation is considered a highly undesirable practice due to the destruction of local biomes and its effects on global warming. Governments around the world are seeking to adopt measures to control this activity and the international trade in wood and derivatives. Brazil, with the second...

O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar os impactos econômicos no Brasil quando ocorre uma mudança tecnológica no setor de cana-de-açúcar, em função de um aumento da demanda mundial por etanol. O instrumento utilizado para as simulações dos cenários, o GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project),...

Spanish Abstract: El artículo describe los principales aspectos estructurales e institucionales del comercio justo y una mirada a las implicaciones que tienen las prácticas comerciales para generar beneficios hacia los mercados internacionales, el desarrollo empresarial y el fortalecimiento de...

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...

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...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the regional impacts of the National Family Farming Program (PRONAF in the Portuguese acronym) between 2000 and 2010, using the econometric instrumental panel data models with fixed effects. The approach combined impact assessments at various regional scales...

This work analyzes the main aspects pluriactive and multifunctional agriculture involving familiar with the territorial dynamics of larger scale, according to regional characteristics under which they operate. It is understood that the notion of multifunctionality analyze the interaction between...