The inequality of credit distribution of Pronaf, between regions and types of family farmers, has been indicated in many studies. To investigate this question, the research analyzes the evolution of Pronaf credit financings in Brazil, facing its decomposition in the effects number of contracts,...

Although the world market seems to be expanding, with an in-creasing participation of the Asian East, mainly of China, it is still subject to much debate related to the use of genetic modiï¬ed varieties, to commer-cial disputes within WTO due to agriculture protection, and to effects of...

The objective of this study is to analyze the behavior of the Brazilian demand for rough and milled rice between January 1995 and June 2010. The main aim is to test the adequacy of linear and non-linear relations that represent short and long-term variables on the demand. In general, long-term...

This study aims to measure the labor and land net productivity in Brazil, major regions and federation units. It also identifies the factor that affects productiveness based on data provided by the Census of Agriculture 2006, from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Thus,...

This study analyzed and verified the importance of sustainability in three land settlements benefited by land reform program of the Federal and State Government in Caucaia county, State of Ceará. It is important to know that the funds allocated to the program did improve the well-being of the...

The objective of this study is to make an analysis of the agro-energy chains of the alcohol fuel and bio-diesel, based on the neo-corpora-tivism reference. As a result, one of the challenges of the Brazilian alcohol chain is to select the dimensions of the external and internal market of alcohol...

The aim of this paper is to present the budget execution performance of the financing of territorial policy referring to the Sustainable Development Program of Rural Areas (Pronat) and Territories of Citizenship Program (PTC). To perform this study actors’ strategic programs were...

The work develops applications of methodologies for the estimation of poverty indexes and income distribution in rural areas, being considered the sample errors of the National Survey for Household Sampling - PNADs. Are obtained estimates with conï¬dence intervals for several indicators and...

A dynamic rational expectation storage models was developed to represent the Brazilian corn market in the late 90’s. In theses years the Brazilian agricultural price policy changed from a buffer stock scheme to a producer price subsidy (Prêmio para Escoamento de Produto – PEP) and the...