We build a database and model to develop general equilibrium analysis of the Brazilian economy at the level of the five macro regions. The model is multiregional at global level as also at the Brazilian level. The project is coupled to the GTAP model through disaggregation of the original...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the 1999 exchange rate (real/dollar) devaluation impact on coffee and intermediate input prices. Input price increased with exchange rate devaluation, reducing the positive effect of the exchange rate on coffee production, compared with the scenario...

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...

The objective of this research is to analyze the impact of variables in the agricultural land price formation between 2000 and 2010 in three different regions in Brazil: the most recent agricultural frontier (southern Maranhão, southern Piauí, southeastern Tocantins and western Bahia), the...

This paper assesses the impacts of the increase in the ethanol demand in Brazil and in the United States on the agricultural production and land use. A global economic model representing agricultural and energy markets, trade among countries, ethanol supply and the demand in Brazil and in the US...

We investigate the hypothesis that the conversion of forest and pasture land to cropland in Brazil decreases yields by 50%. Such hypothesis is being used by the California Air Resource Board to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions from indirect land use changes due to the expansion of biofuels...

Focusing on changes in agricultural policy, this paper examines the economic impacts on MERCOSUL member country economies arising from the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and a free trade area between MERCOSUL and the European Union (MERCOEURO). Four simulations are run...

In the last few years, efforts have been made to modify agricultural support policies in order to minimize the distortive impacts on product level and on international trade. Emphasis has been given to decoupled payments, considered neutral to current production decisions. The main argument is...

Income transfers from family farm to nonagricultural sectors occurred due to imports to substitution policy. A way of compensating this segment could be compensated by an income stabilization policy that would improve the income distribution in the agricultural sector. Also it could assure a...

The process of tecnology adoption in agriculture is fundamentally important for increasing productivity and improving the quality of agricultural products. The objective of this study is to evaluate the factors that determine the technological adoption of post-harvest coffee employed in Viçosa...