for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in Brazil, low correlation and greater volatility are …

The present paper discusses a new approach to the Brazilian production and transaction of genetically modified soybeans … Brazil, proving that the original promises of a reduction of the production costs which would be derived from the use of …

Technological change in the 1970s and 1980s made it possible to grow soybeans in the remote Brazilian Savanna. However …, multiple constraints typical of a developing region prevented many ranchers from adopting soybeans. Following the macroeconomic … reforms that opened up the market in Brazil, international traders introduced a new farmer–trader contract that bundled …

"Data for OECD countries document: 1. imports and exports are about three times as volatile as GDP; 2. imports and … exports are pro-cyclical, and positively correlated with each other; 3. net exports are counter-cyclical. Standard models fail … to replicate the behavior of imports and exports, though they can match net exports relatively well. Inspired by the fact …