Climate change is a reality and its effects directly affect society, including the production of food and commodities. Given this scenario, the need to face the consequences of climate change leads to studies to verify ...

Deforestation in the Legal Amazon region is one of the main factors generating greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions can be minimized with the efficient use of areas destined for agriculture in the region. Given ...

The volatility in commodity prices has direct implications for the financial results of companies and consumers. Not infrequently, such variations occur in a sharp way, and in non-compliance with market fundamentals, that ...

University of São Carlos, Sorocaba, 2018. Since the 2000s, several changes occurred in the Brazilian and international corn markets. In Brazil, due primarily to the increasing importance of the winter crop, the central-west ...

Food consumption has two distinct consequences on welfare: on the one hand, it determines the nutritional situation of consumers; on the other hand, it affects the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), thus impacting global ...

The process of changing market conditions, due to the major shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the changes in domestic and international market conditions in subsequent years, significantly affected the price ...

Brazil is currently the world’s largest producer of sugarcane and the importance of this sector has been occurring since the colonial period and has strengthened its relevance in the international market. The increase on ...