some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on …

Agriculture and the agro-processing sector in Brazil have shown impressive growth over the past two decades. This has … largely been driven by productivity improvements and structural adjustment resulting from broad economic reforms, as well as …

interactions in Brazil are based on findings that the investments in R&D by the private sector are low, and the national (and thus …, adapted by Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil from the Carnegie Mellon (Cohen, 2002) and Yale Surveys (Klevorick, 1995 …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … innovations that reduce the susceptibility of agricultural production to these uncontrolled factors. These features of agriculture …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …