The findings presented in this edited book are derived from the activities of the SCARLED (Structural Change in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods) project. It had been co-financed by the European Commission and lasted from January 2007 until September 2010. SCARLED pursued two major research...

[...] Im Gegensatz zu den bisherigen Modellierungsergebnissen zum künftigen Energiemaisanbau erlaubt der entwickelte Ansatz regionale Entwicklungsunterschiede zu verstehen. Es werden sowohl kurzfristige Anpassungsreaktionen als auch die langfristig kritischen Parameter für die...

"This book investigates the many ways in which industrial capitalist agriculture has penetrated and transformed contemporary Latin America. Using a range of case studies from across the region, the book considers the socio-economic, political and ecological implications of the agro-industrial...

This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time periods, and remains low. Whereas pass-through effects where high and close to 1 in the high-inflation period, they seem to have fallen to around 0.2 after the Real Plan...