Feeding the World

Feeding the World
Author: Herbert S. Klein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2019
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108473091

Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.

The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy

The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy
Author: Edmund Amann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190600004

Brazil is a globally vital but troubled economy. This volume offers comprehensive insight into Brazil's economic development, focusing on its most salient characteristics and analyzing its structural features across various dimensions. This innovative Oxford Handbook provides an understanding of the economy's evolution over time and highlights the implications of the past trajectory and decisions for current challenges and opportunities. The opening section covers the country's economic history, beginning with the colonial economy, through import-substitution, to the era of neoliberalism. Second, it analyses Brazil's broader place in the global economy, and considers the ways in which this role has changed, and is likely to change, over coming years. Particular attention is given to the productive sectors of Brazil's economy, for example manufacturing, agriculture, services, energy, and infrastructure. In addition to discussions of regional differences within Brazil, socio-economic dimensions are examined. These include income distribution, human capital, environmental issues, and health. Also included is a discussion of Brazil in the world economy, such as the increase in "South-South" cooperation and trade as well as foreign direct investment. Last but not least is a discussion of the role of the Brazilian state in the economy, whether through state enterprises, competition policy, or corruption.

Operations Research and Enterprise Systems

Operations Research and Enterprise Systems
Author: Greg H. Parlier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030160351

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2018, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 59 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: methodologies and technologies; and applications.

Agricultural Development in Brazil

Agricultural Development in Brazil
Author: Antonio M. Buainain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 135102972X

In the last few decades, Brazilian agriculture has experienced a seismic transformation, and its contradictory facets have fed different and opposing narratives regarding recent changes. This book covers these changes, exploring the issues from several empirical and analytical angles, including the role of agriculture in the contemporary Brazilian economy, the dynamics of Brazilian agricultural value chains, environmental challenges and the processes of social differentiation. Brazilian agriculture continues to be viewed in the international literature, either through the lenses of the past century – those of former problems relating to land use and land tenure – or apologetically. This collection of essays aims at updating the current interpretations, providing objective accounting of the main transformations, its determinants, results, contradictions and limitations. As it covers the most relevant traits of Brazilian agricultural and rural development, the book will provide the reader with an encompassing view of contemporary Brazilian agriculture, including the positive and negative sides of the so-called tropical agriculture revolution. It highlights the tremendous economic potential as well as the continuing structural heterogeneity, concentration of production and marginalization of millions of small farmers. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book will be perfect for all those interested in learning about Brazilian agriculture. It will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students of economic development, agricultural economics, rural sociology, comparative economic development, rural development and agricultural policies.

New Geographies of Global Policy-Making

New Geographies of Global Policy-Making
Author: Carolina Milhorance
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-09-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351655132

International institutions and agencies from the Global North are no longer the sole initiators of development norms and best practices. The proliferation of exports and imports of social, economic and policy management models have called for a rethinking of South–South relations. To date, most studies have focused on the drivers and strategies of international initiatives made by emerging powers; none have analysed the impact of these initiatives on the receiving country’s institutions, and on the structures of international organisations. In this book, Carolina Milhorance examines the content, process and consequences of the internationalisation of Brazil’s rural public policy instruments. Brazil earned wide international recognition in the early 2000s for its agricultural modernisation and social policies; its increasing influence illustrated the specific political interests of coalitions that are embedded in domestic and international struggles. Drawing on extensive field research – including more than 280 interviews – conducted in Brazil, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi, France and Italy, Milhorance analyses the effects of the internationalisation of Brazilian policy solutions on national and local political systems in recipient countries, highlighting specifically the case of Mozambique. Relying on a new theoretical approach to International Relations – one based on public policy analysis and international political sociology – she moves beyond a debate about conventional notions of international power. New Geographies of Global Policy-Making will be of interest to scholars and researchers of international relations, public policy analysis, political sociology, comparative politics, and Latin American studies.

Agrindex

Agrindex
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1992
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Brazil

OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Brazil
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2015-07-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9264237054

Agriculture and the agro-processing sector in Brazil have shown impressive growth over the past two decades. This has largely been driven by productivity improvements and structural adjustment resulting from broad economic reforms, as well as new technologies developed by agricultural science.

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management

Participatory Action Research in Natural Resource Management
Author: Christian Castellanet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004-06-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135465231

This work evaluates the merits of a widely-used approach to natural resource management, participatory action research (PAR), an approach to resource management that strives to link researchers with farmers and other local residents whose lives are effected by long-range conservation programmes. The authors begin the book with the history of PAR, and then use a variety of case studies that chronicle sustainable development efforts in Brazil. They evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these efforts and suggest specific ways to improve on future PAR efforts.