harvesting, in Brazilian case. It is recognized that sugarcane is significantly more valuable by tilled area than many other … crops, such as soybeans, for example. The objective of this paper is to estimate the effect of growing sugarcane on socio …

Along with a growing global ethanol market, investment in the production of sugarcane is growing, targeting new … sugarcane and (large-scale) ethanol. The sector is highly concentrated. More recently, however, small ethanol distilleries have … come up. The related production systems integrate small-scale sugarcane growing and alcohol processing in different ways …

. Taking the case of sugarcane, it explores the potential to expand production, through exploring both biophysical factors and …

fertilization, they should be highly productive. We suggest that sugarcane is the crop most easily mobilized for biofuel. A number …

quantities on existing lands. Highly perishable, low-density crops such as sugarcane require tight integration between growers …

bargaining power in processes of changing land control and land use. I analyze the effects of the transformation of the sugarcane … and expansion of sugarcane production and foremost the mechanization of the harvest. Theoretically the analysis is based …

associations. The only significant difference between the sugarcane production on the factory-operated sugarcane plantation and on … set that includes all plots that are operated by the sugar factory and its adjacent outgrower associations. As sugar-cane …

arrangements offer benefits to participating smallholders. We apply matching methods to analyze the effects of a public sugarcane …

agricultural commodities, specifically corn and sugarcane, using the multivariate diagonal BEKK conditional volatility model. The … market, there were significant negative co-volatility spillover effects, specifically corn on subsequent sugarcane co …-volatility with corn, and sugarcane on subsequent corn co-volatility with sugarcane. In the other 4 cases, there are no significant co …

assignment problem. The problem consists of assigning drivers to harvesters, which will then be assigned to harvest sugarcane in … harvest sugarcane leads to a range of daily wages. Each harvester has different operating years and engine size, which affects … its fuel consumption rate and capacity to harvest sugarcane, respectively. Assigning a worker to a harvester can improve …