This work analyzes the convergence of land productivity for Brazilian regions from 1991 to 2003. It evaluates if there is or not convergence of the agricultural productivity, controlling explicitly for spatial effects. To do so, an exploratory spatial data analysis was previously implemented and...

The objective of this article is to present the MEECA model, an innovative econometric methodology for generating economically consistent long term scenarios of projections for agriculture and living stock. This methodology is based upon the spatial econometrics, taking into account the spatial...

This paper aims to verify the existence of relationship between environmental degradation and economic growth, based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for the Brazilian Cerrado in 2008. The deforested area of the Cerrado’s municipalities was defined as dependent variable and...