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Currently, the region named Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) represents the agricultural frontier of Brazil, and it … Brazil's Midwest, a region near to BLA, in the seventies and eighties, can provide a proxy. The Midwest was region of more … intensive agricultural growth in last forty years in Brazil. So, the agents in BLA can compare the actual development stage, in …
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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 …
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within Brazil. For the consumption vector of one individual living within the Amazon metropolitan regions, the deforestation …
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Brazil has been pointed out as the number one country chop downing tropical native forest. This process takes place …
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The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...
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Historically, development in Brazilian Amazon was promoted by permits of deforestation and little territory control or supervision. However, due to the importance of this biome for biodiversity and ecosystem balance in a global perspective, Brazilian's government has tighten deforestation...
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Climate variability is one of the main environmental causes of losses to the agricultural sector. Most of the methodological tools applied to estimate its economic cost usually account only for the direct impact on agricultural activity. In this paper we use an alternative approach in which a...
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Agriculture is an important economic sector in all countries, being the main source of food for the population and a …
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order to determine the level of profitability or feasibility regarding this economic sector, respectively agriculture. In … order to be able to determine the global economic efficiency in the agriculture of Romania, first of all, indicators of the … Economic Accounts from Agriculture will be analyzed, found in the national data bases, respectively the National Institute of …
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