BrazilThis paper provides an overview of the evolution of Brazilian agriculture analyzing its transition from low productivity and backwardness to its current status as major player in international markets and role model for other developing countries. Yet, rather than simply looking back and trying ...
T. (2021). Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil. Nature Climate Change, 2021, 1098–1104. Article Google Scholar Riahi, K., Van Vuuren, D. P., Kriegler, E., Edmonds, J., Brian, C., O’neill, Fujimori, S., Bauer, N., Calvin, K., Dellink, R., & Fricko, O. (2017)...
The increasing availability of satellite data at higher spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions is enabling new applications in agriculture and economic development, including agricultural insurance. Yet, effectively using satellite data in this context requires blending technical knowledge about their capabi...
Within agriculture, crops and non-ruminant sectors have displayed the strongest growth between 1961 and 2001, and ruminant production performed the worst. Additional analysis of the cases of Brazil and Cuba illustrates potential effects of policies and external shocks on agricultural productivity; ...
The results are mainly driven by economic zones with female-dominatedindustriesand women’s sectoral reallocation from agricultural to non-agriculture employment. Moreover, we analyze the impact of place-based policies on children’s education and find the dropout probability of children decreases by ...
Good news regarding food and agriculture Posted on November 23, 2017 | Comments Off on Good news regarding food and agriculture The good news is this: There’s More Farmland in the World Than Was Previously Thought | Agweb.com. There are still problems in preventing hunger and famine, but...
Dixon J (2003a) Economics of Conservation Agriculture: farm profitability, risks and secondary benefits from the farmers’ perspective, Keynote paper, Second World Congress of Conservation Agriculture (August 2003), Foz de Iguacu, Brazil Google Scholar ...
The mission of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics is to publish creative and scholarly economic studies in agriculture, natural resources, and related areas. Manuscripts dealing with the economics of food and agriculture, natural resources and the environment, human resources, and rural...
(2017) use data from World Bank’s Pink Sheet to construct three separate world commodity price indices for the cyclical components of Fuel, Agriculture, and Metal and Minerals, deflated using the US CPI. These indices are average prices of representative individual commodities weighted by world ...
In addition, unemployment increased considerably: from 3.8% in 2019 to 4.9% in 2020 (INEC 2021). During the lockdown, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations jointly carried out a global public campaign to promote a healthy diet, ...