Apesar de serem reconhecidamente importantes, o valor das perdas de produtos agrícolas é de difícil mensuração a partir dos dados econômicos mundiais. Estudo conduzido pela FAO (Gustavsson et al., 2011) buscou suprir esta deficiência, fornecendo estimativas para grupos de países...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the SSG and a simulation of its effects for Brazilian sugar exports to countries such as the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) bloc. A first stage involved the identification of tariff lines (TL) for the EU and the US sugar imports from...

This paper estimates the impact of an increase in Brazilian sugar and ethanol demand for exports upon the countries' overall production and employment. The impacts were simulated considering each of the major cane producing areas of the country (Center-South and North-Northeast). An...

Portuguese Abstract: Com a criação da Organização Mundial do Comércio (OMC), o comércio internacional do açúcar poderá experimentar reduções em barreiras protecionistas impostas por países desenvolvidos. Associado a isto, com a assinatura do Protocolo de Kyoto, tem-se uma expectativa...

The cane, sugar and ethanol production in Brazil has been divided in two major production regions, the Center-South (CS) and the North-Northeastern (NNE) Brazil. These regions present very different productivity, and henceforth production costs. The Center-South average productivity is higher...