In the last few years, efforts have been made to modify agricultural support policies in order to minimize the distortive impacts on product level and on international trade. Emphasis has been given to decoupled payments, considered neutral to current production decisions. The main argument is...

Income transfers from family farm to nonagricultural sectors occurred due to imports to substitution policy. A way of compensating this segment could be compensated by an income stabilization policy that would improve the income distribution in the agricultural sector. Also it could assure a...

The process of tecnology adoption in agriculture is fundamentally important for increasing productivity and improving the quality of agricultural products. The objective of this study is to evaluate the factors that determine the technological adoption of post-harvest coffee employed in Viçosa...