This paper discusses the question of the concentrated pattern of agricultural development in Brazil, as expressed in the predominance of large-scale production, high level of mechanization and low absorption of non-qualified labor. It is proposed, initially, the existence of two conflicting...

This paper proposes that the rapid agricultural expansion of the cerrado regions, which has been limited do grains and livestock, is due to the low price of land in these regions as compared with the other agricultural regions of Brazil and abroad. This low price of land, in its turn, is...

This paper discusses the policy of fixing minimum prices for the Center-West, that the government adopted specially in the 1980s and in the first half of the 1990s, without taking in due consideration the higher transportation costs between this region and the importing regions, vis-à-vis the...