An interesting opportunity exists to discuss argibusiness projects to be implemented in poor regions. This chapter presents a method that suggests four fundamental dimensions to be inserted in agribusiness projects and to be used by governments and development agencies for attracting the right...

The Kyoto Protocol was approved in February 2005 and the carbon market without rules, played by pioneer companies interested in learning how to do with their corporate image, started working towards a formality. As Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) market has already established Institutional...

The IFAMR is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org

The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org

ViniBrasil is a small wine venture in Brazil started by a top Portuguese wine company, Dao Sul. ViniBrasil grows its grapes in a novel environment (close to the equator) using innovative management practices such as controlled irrigation and year-round harvesting. ViniBrasil 'Rio Sol' wines,...

In the modern world, it has certain that system and network construction with inclusion of small producers, innovation and marketing will give to agribusiness the chance to reduce unemployment and poverty in developing countries. These concepts of transnational systems (chains) have come for...

The literature shows that bounded rationality makes almost impossible to build complete contracts to manage transactions between companies. Furthermore, incomplete contracts generate opportunism problems from one of the involved parts and undesirable transaction costs that could be reduced if...

With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was instituting its first...

Marketing literature shows that the main sequences of strategic marketing planning and control processes do not have a strong network approach, since these sequences consider the company in a more individual approach. This article presents a new sequence of steps, which was applied as a...

Research of existing literature reveals some models (sequence of steps) for companies that want to plan distribution channels. None of these models uses strong contributions from transaction cost economics, bringing a possibility to elaborate on a “distribution channels planning model”, with...