This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...

A partir dos dados do Censo Agropecuário, acopladas a uma base cartográfica do recurso solo do Paraná, foram construídos e interpretados uma série de indicadores focados no objetivo de subsidiar o planejamento e gestão das atividades de criação intensiva de animais numa base municipal,...

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the general setting encompassing the input and output orientations simultaneously. This paper uses the generalized Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen (LHM) TFP indicator which is additively...