The objective of this study was to analyze the aggregate agriculture productionfunction for the state of Minas Gerais. The analysis was accomplished in two phases.First, we separate the municipalities in terms of the productive efficiency, using thenon-parametric approach of data envelopment...

The objective of this study was to analyze the aggregate agriculture production function for the state of Minas Gerais. The analysis was accomplished in two phases. First, we separate the municipalities in terms of the productive efficiency, using the non-parametric approach of data envelopment...

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...