Among the economic activities in Brazil's Midwest region, agriculture has an important role in the regional economy, with the aim of this study to evaluate the recent situation of regional agriculture in order to identify constraints and opportunities for development and discuss actions that may...

Much of the recent dynamism of the Brazilian agricultural sector occurred in activities developed in Brazil's South, Southeast and Midwest regions. Specifically, the Southeast region was responsible in 2006 for approximately 34% of the value of agricultural production according to data from the...

The Brazilian agricultural market is a key source of government revenues. Therefore, many studies are being done to assess the sector's productivity gain over time. However, the regional analysis of agricultural productivity still is not investigated. This work focuses on mapping the gain of...

Nutrition transition is driven by quantity increase and structural change in food consumption. Particularly, meat consumption plays an important role. This study proposes a simple but innovative method to empirically decompose the total income effect on nutrition improvement into direct income...

All the scenarios and models made up by the most titled scientists in biology, agriculture, geophysics, and human health prove that the four main resources of the existence of the biosphere are so polluted that it is a matter of time until a major collapse of human existence occurs. The problem...

This paper aims to analyze the economic efficiency at the macroeconomic level of the agricultural sector in Romania, in 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...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the competitiveness of the Romanian horticultural sector in terms of production efficiency, using a few specific indicators such as land productivity, labour productivity, and share of costs in production. These indicators have been calculated on the basis...

Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes. Coastal areas are diverse in function and form, dynamic and do not lend themselves well to definition by strict spatial boundaries. Unlike watersheds, there are no exact...

According to the many years of research results in a stationary field experiment on southern chernozems, it has been shown that the systematic use of fertilizers for black and green fallow provides the production of winter wheat grains with protein and gluten that meets the requirements of the...

Maize, original from America, ranks third in the top of cereal crops as importance and ranks second in the international top, after wheat cultivation, these positions being acquired due to a series of particularities I presume: high production capacity, wide area spreading, ecological elasticity...