Os produtos minimamente processados (PMP) são alimentos práticos e nutritivos e cada vez mais demandados. Sua cadeia produtiva necessita de monitoramento em todos os elos, principalmente quanto à qualidade, sanidade e prazo de validade. Este trabalho analisa as relações de coordenação...

O Objetivo principal deste texto é subsidiar e contribuir para a discussão sobre as possibilidades de conciliação entre a produção de cana, açúcar e álcool com a sustentabilidade social e ambiental e com desenvolvimento econômico. O texto se inicia com uma retrospectiva histórica da...

This paper aims to resume the agricultural machinery history and development, as well as their majors companies, in order to understand the current market structure and the prospects for their future. The first discussion is related to the importance of technical progress to compete in this...

This article assesses the new mechanisms of regulation on rural sector implemented in Brazil during the last decade. Based on the approach of Economic Sociology and the New Institutional Economics, it was analyzed the different phases which the agro­ ­industrial complexes went through. It...

The objective of this study is to make an analysis of the agro-energy chains of the alcohol fuel and bio-diesel, based on the neo-corpora-tivism reference. As a result, one of the challenges of the Brazilian alcohol chain is to select the dimensions of the external and internal market of alcohol...

This paper aims to appraise the technological capabilities (LALL concept, 1992) of Brazilian sugarcane agroindustry for a sample of three leading production states: São Paulo, Paraná and Minas Gerais. A field research survey with sugar and ethanol mills provides the primary data for assessing...