This paper argues that the rapid agricultural expansion of the cerrado regions in Brazil is due to the low price of land in these regions, as compared with the other agricultural regions of Brazil and abroad. This low price of land is, in turn, attributed not only to the greater distance of...

This paper proposes that the rapid agricultural expansion of the cerrado regions, which has been limited to grains and livestock, is due to the low price of land in these regions as compared with the other agricultural regions of Brazil and abroad. This low price of land, in its turn, is...

This paper discusses the policy of fixing minimum prices for the Center-West, that the government adopted specially in the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s, without taking in due consideration the higher transportation costs between this region and the importing regions, vis-a-vis the...

This paper analyses the Brazilian agricultural growth since January 1999, when a new exchange rate policy was adopted by the country. The analysis focuses on the behavior of the exchange rate and international commodity prices throughout the period 1999-2004. It is also analysed the behavior of...