For decades, the Brazilian agriculture sector has suffered strong income transfers to many of the country’s other economic sectors, which caused the impoverishment of many Brazilian farmers. Govern-ment sponsored rural credit assistance programs have somewhat redres-sed this inequity and...

Since the 1980s, the investments in infrastructure have been significantly reduced, jeopardizing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and competitiveness of Brazilian agriculture. The Solow growth model with panel data is used to estimate TFP. An adaptation of the Zhang and Fan (2004) model for...

The aim of this study is to investigate the direct and indirect impacts of sugarcane expansion on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from 2001 to 2008. The analysis is based on the multi-output production theory where the annual agricultural acreage represents the Production Possibility...

This study investigates the importance of spatial dependence and inter-relations due to geographic localization over the supply response to agricultural prices, in the Brazilian Center-West. Specifically, we evaluated: the spatial error dependence in the input demand and output supply; and, the...

The family farm coffee producers from Venda Nova do Imi-grante, ES, have adopted the pulping technology to improve Arabic co-ffee quality. The objective of this paper is to identify the adoption de-terminants of the pulping technology by the coffee producers. The Logit model is applied for data...

The Brazilian Interest Rate Equalization System (IRES) subsidizes farmers by providing them with credit at lower than market interest rates. The objective of this research is to evaluate the IRES by comparing its monetary cost with its benefits as measured by Brazilian GDP growth. Estimates are...