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 ...

This dissertation brings a study about the determinants of the chinese productive capital internationalization, on the period of 2006 to 2015, and the importance of the State and its industrial policy in this process. China ...

Since the begining of the 21st century, the exports of corn and cotton have increased, increasing the Brazilian participation in these international markets. In addition to the technological changes incorporated to the ...

The relationships between economic growth, public spending and poverty are the targets of several studies, and their results highlight that GDP improvement is seen as the best way to reduce poverty. Based on this principle, ...

The purpose of this work is to simulate reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to analyze the behavior of emissions and gross production value (GVP) of 40 countries considering the global emission mitigation ...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of rural pensions on the reduction of poverty in rural areas of Brazil in the period from 2004 to 2015. Currently, more than 70% of total benefits issued by the ...

We used agricultural commodities futures prices to identify speculative bubbles in the Brazilian derivatives markets between 2008 and 2017. We applied the Generalized Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller (GSADF) test to ...